A FAIR PENITENT

by WILKIE COLLINS




About A FAIR PENITENT

This story first appeared in Charles Dickens' magazine, "Household
Words," volume 16, number 382, July 18, 1857. Published anonymously, as
all contributions to the magazine were, it was attributed definitely to
Wilkie Collins by Anne Lohrli in her analysis of the magazine's
finanacial accounts. In the original, there is an acute accent over the
final "e" of "Rance"; "Theatre Francois" should have an acute accent
over the first "e", a circumflex accent over the first "a", and a
cedilla under the "c".





A FAIR PENITENT



Charles Pineau Duclos was a French writer of biographies and novels, who
lived and worked during the first half of the eighteenth century. He
prospered sufficiently well, as a literary man, to be made secretary to
the French Academy, and to be allowed to succeed Voltaire in the office