num_pages: 339
description: Formerly an aide-de-camp to Napoleon but now without prospects, Phillippe Bridau and his younger brother Joseph, a shiftless artist, become entangled in a struggle to recover the family inheritance in a world where "to be without money is to be without power."
language: English
title: The Black Sheep
titlecomplete: The Black Sheep
characters: Philippe Bridau, Max Gilet, Joseph Bridau, Agathe Rouget, Jean-Jacques
genres: Historical Fiction, Historical, French Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, Fiction, 19th Century, France
ratings_count: 2024
series: La Comédie Humaine, Études de mœurs : Scènes de la vie de province, Les Célibataires - The Celibates 
publisher: Penguin Classics