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Charles left to go live in Paris. He remarried in 1974 to
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Born to diplomats, Charles was hit in the eye by shrapnel during a morning air raid when he was 4 months and 8 days old. This left him blind in one eye, a detail often evoked in his novels. In his 20s, he decided to leave for the south of France after getting fed-up with the
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on 10 January 1970, after six months of worsening addiction. The end of his trip touches insanity, Charles escaping death several times at the last minute. Upon his return, he recorded the tale of his adventure on 18
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December 1970., Insanity, death & excess, it was the decade. This psychedelic novel gives us a clear and sometimes crazy insider's look at hippie wave of the 60s.
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Monsieur S., funeral director recognized him and let him be entombed in the
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