Italy: Le Voyageur de la Toussaint, paper publication (Il viaggiatore del giorno dei morti)

Le Voyageur de la Toussaint

Une veille de Toussaint, Gilles Mauvoisin, un jeune homme venant de Norvège, débarque à La Rochelle. C’est la ville de ses parents. Ceux-ci viennent de mourir accidentellement à Trondheim, après avoir poursuivi, à travers le monde, une existence médiocre d’artistes au rabais. Sitôt arrivé, Gilles apprend qu’Octave Mauvoisin, le frère de son père, décédé depuis quatre mois, lui a légué son entreprise de transports et sa fortune, à la condition d’habiter sa maison et d’y laisser vivre sa veuve, Colette. Le jeune héritier entre donc en possession des biens et d’un coffre-fort dont il a la clef, mais non les cinq lettres de la combinaison.

On the eve of All Saints Day, Gilles Mauvoisin, a young man from Norway, arrives in La Rochelle, the town of his parents. After having lived throughout the world the wretched existence of discounted artists, they just died accidentally in Trondheim. Upon his arrival, Gilles learns that his uncle, Octave Mauvoisin, who had died four months before, bequeathed his transport company and his fortune to him, on the condition that he inhabits his house and allows his widow, Colette, to live there. So the young heir enters in possession of the inheritance, wich includes a safe of which he has the key, but not the five letters of the combination.

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