“One day, he will end up having my skin…” How many of Henri Bessat’s friends have heard this phrase in Nantua, where he is a watchmaker. Nature has not spoiled Henri. He was born a hunchback. But his real burden, his cross, is his brother, Émile, about ten years his junior. He has a nameless hatred for him. And old. Besides, Émile doesn’t love anyone. And especially not his family with whom he lives in a building on rue du Collège. His mother, his father, his sister, his brother… No one finds favor in his eyes. And each in turn receives his or her load of insults and ignominies. And even blows.
“I’m going to settle you and your hunchback”
Sometimes the police come, at the request of neighbors, alerted by the cries. But they leave without anyone having filed a complaint. Like that day in March 1884 when he yelled to his mother: “Today, I’m finally going to settle the score with you and your hunchback. »
The young life of Émile Bessat was nothing but a long series of wanderings,…
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