He was not condemned to death, freedom awaited him. What was the temptation, the one that worked? Perhaps he wanted to live with a woman whose life he had saved, who had seen down into the earth but had nevertheless followed him back up to life. It was his only chance to be a hero, to one person at least, for if he became the hangman the others would despise him. He was in prison for wounding another man, on one finger of the right hand, with a sword. This too is history.

You wonder about her crime. She was condemned to death for stealing clothes from her employer, from the wife of her employer. She wished to make herself more b…

My friends, who are both women, tell me their stories, which cannot be believed and which are true. They are horror stories and they have not happened to me, t…

She must transform his hands so they will be willing to twist the rope around throats that have been singled out as hers was, throats other than hers. She must…

In Dante the hero would rather flee and renounce the tempting embrace instead of yielding to his desires and enduring the attendant dangers.

Ta vertu met ta gloire au-dessus de ton crime.

I started out as a beginner/Entered the criminal lifestyle became a sinner