Excerpt from The Sale of an Appetite Some years ago an attendant in the insane asylum at Charenton gave me a manuscript which had been entrusted to him by one of the inmates, who had died in a strait-jacket. Its author, Emile Destouches, the attendant asserted, had never been insane; he had without doubt been committed by the orders of some high oflicial; for, during his captivity, they kept him alone, watched by a Special guard, who came from outside. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.