The final scene is a visit to the old asthma patient's house immediately after Cottard "who had an ignorant, that is to say lonely heart" was taken into custody by the police.  
The final scene is a visit to the old asthma patient's house immediately after Cottard "who had an ignorant, that is to say lonely heart" was taken into custody by the police.  A few days earlier the third person narrator of the work, had learned that his wife was dead and had witnessed the death of his friend Tarrau. Perhaps the only person who might fully recover from the experience is Rambert, a journalist who is reunited with his lover after being quarantined in Oran after rats and then people started dying in droves.  FTP name this 1947 work told by Bernard Rieux and written by Albert Camus.
The final scene is a visit to the old asthma patient's house immediately after Cottard "who had an ignorant, that is to say lonely heart" was taken into custody by the police.  
The Plague or La Peste