title: Young and Revolting: The Continental Journals of Nick Twisp (Book V: Youth of France)
author: Payne D C
description: C.D. Payne is the author of six humorous novels, including his cult-favorite first novel Youth in Revolt, which is now in development as a movie by Dimension Films. Another novel, Frisco Pigeon Mambo, has been purchased by Twentieth Century-Fox for an animated feature film. Paynes novels have been translated into many languages and are popular with European readers. He also has published a collection of short humor pieces, Cut to the Twisp. His first play, Queen of America, recently premiered in San Jose. He is a graduate of Harvard College and lives in California. Selected works by this author: Young and Revolting: The Continental Journals of Nick Twisp Revolting Young: The Journals of Nick Twisp's Younger Brother
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  >  _Guile begets guile, violence begets violence._
  
  > —THOMAS THORILD, 1793
  
  > PART ONE
  
  > The Ghost _of the_ Indebetou
  
  > AUTUMN 1793
  
  >  _A great calamity has befallen us. A thousand rumors abound, each one more
  > preposterous than the next. It is impossible to obtain any trustworthy
  > information, for even travelers have differing accounts and all seem to me
  > somewhat poetical in what they relate. The atrocity of the crime, as it h