CLERAMBAULT

THE STORY OF AN INDEPENDENT SPIRIT DURING THE WAR


BY

ROMAIN ROLLAND


TRANSLATED BY

KATHERINE MILLER


1921




TO THE READER

This book is not a novel, but rather the confession of a free spirit
telling of its mistakes, its sufferings and its struggles from the
midst of the tempest; and it is in no sense an autobiography either.
Some day I may wish to write of myself, and I will then speak without
any disguise or feigned name. Though it is true that I have lent
some ideas to my hero, his individuality, his character and the
circumstances of his life are all his own; and I have tried to give a
picture of the inward labyrinth where a weak spirit wanders, feeling