The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard by Anatole France, Fiction, Mystery & Detective 12+

📖 Sylvestre Bonnard, a member of the Institute, is a historian and philologist, gifted with great erudition. He lives among books and launches himself into the research, in Sicily and Paris, of the precious manuscript of the French version of the Golden Legend, which he finally obtains. By chance he meets a young girl named Jeanne, the granddaughter of a woman he once loved.