Le transporté (1/4)

The narrative begins with the demolition of a great Parisian hotel and centers on the richly appointed salon of the celebrated Lucrèce Dorio, where neoclassical décor and ritualized dress reveal social performance and affectation. Vignettes trace her dealings with attendants and a sequence of suitors, while incidental episodes show young veterans and fashionable men composing rustic and epic verse to suit public tastes. A prefatory voice treats transportation as a consoling moral remedy, and the work combines close social portraiture with ironic observation of shifting manners, literary fashions, and post‑revolutionary theatricality.