I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about me called it scarlet fever, and its very name seemed to have a diabolical quality.
Pierre LotiAbout author
- Author's profession: Writer
- Nationality: french
- Born: January 14, 1850
- Died: June 10, 1923
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