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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Saint-Jules is excused any day in my book, for being one of the first to conduct large-scale archival research on the French Revolution. : ) Also, he nearly bled to death writing its history - that man had nothing left at the end! LOL.

I suppose the temptation of goth was just too much in this particular case - especially in relation to Saint-Just, whom he found so very overwhelming. Smirk.