The Nobles

The Nobles is a French story occurs in France around 1898-1899.
This is a romantic, political and social novel.
This story is a narration of history that is happening all the time and everywhere. It is the story of the failure and blackness of history and all human societies and social classes that have never achieved what human deserves.
The novel is the life story of a poor boy named Antoine Buttlen who works as a chimney cleaner with his father in Montlucon, France. He also has an uncle named Mario, who is a rat catcher in sewage canals who later was infected with leprosy, and was hospitalized in a leprosy house near Paris.
Antoine, after graduating from high school, despite his great intelligence, due to poverty and on the orders and advice of his father; Simon Buttlen, a faithful and honest man; to continue his education, went to a free boarding school dedicated to religious sciences in Clermont-Ferrand.
Then, based on a seemingly simple event, which was entering the depths of the chimney and removing a brick from there, that had blocked the exit of the chimney of the room of principal of the school, named Father Theodore; through another teacher, named father Carl, who witnessed Antoine's work, he met a wealthy man named Count Morris Dubral, who was also preparing for the Senate election and lives in Paris.
After that, although Antoine initially had run away from school, stayed in school to earn money by spying for Count Morris Dubral, Even though, at this time, his father was dead and he could leave the school.
Because Antoine's body physique, which is his extreme thinness, causes him to work for Morris Dubral. Then he was involved events by entering several chimneys and spying and eavesdropping for Morris. At the same time, he meets a girl in a village where dyers are living.
He was later promoted to steward of Count and resides in the mansion of Count Dubral near Clermont.
In the same room inside which he once witnessed the murder of Edmund Dubral by Morris Dubral. On a mission he had carried out secretly and without Morris's knowledge.
Antoine soon witnesses the trial of one of the servant of the mansion accused of murdering Count Edmund Dubral.
But in the end, Antoine, after becoming a criminal and dangerous creature, and at the same time realizing the darkness and degeneration of this world, prefer to rescue himself and his uncle.....