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THE FAT AND THE THIN

(LE VENTRE DE PARIS)

By Emile Zola

Translated, With An Introduction, By Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

                 Let me have men about me that are fat:                 Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights:                 Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look;                 He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.                 SHAKESPEARE: Julius Caesar, act i, sc. 2.

Contents

INTRODUCTION

"THE FAT AND THE THIN," or, to use the French title, "Le Ventre de