Camus' teen goth Saint-Just...

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Another query - does anyone know the source, if any, for Albert Camus' description of Saint-Just (presumably while a law student) living in a room with black walls with teardrop patterns and the shutters closed? This sounds too teen-angsty to be true, but would be wonderful if it was (reminds me of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, when in a fit of depression he paints his bedroom black but Noddy's bells keep showing through!). Camus mentions it in the Saint-Just chapter of 'The Rebel'.

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Oh - it's just reminded me of a cartoon I saw about Napoleon's wallpaper (the arsenic story that turned out to be due to his lifelong hair oil, not arsenic in the green paper!). I kept it but god knows where - the flowery wallpaper mutates into skulls...