A Second Home
A Second Home

A Second Home

A Second Home The Rue du Tourniquet-Saint-Jean, formerly one of the darkest and most tortuous of the...
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Author: Balzac, Honoré de,1799-1850
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A Second Home

A Second Home

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A Second Home

A Second Home

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Author: Balzac, Honoré de,1799-1850
Format: eBook
Language: English
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A Second Home

The Rue du Tourniquet-Saint-Jean, formerly one of the darkest and most tortuous of the streets about the Hotel de Ville, zigzagged round the little gardens of the Paris Prefecture, and ended at the Rue Martroi, exactly at the angle of an old wall now pulled down. Here stood the turnstile to which the street owed its name; it was not removed till 1823, when the Municipality built a ballroom on the garden plot adjoining the Hotel de Ville, for the fete given in honor of the Duc dAngouleme on his return from Spain. The widest part of the Rue du Tourniquet was the end opening into the Rue de la Tixeranderie, and even there it was less than six feet across. Hence in rainy weather the gutter water was soon deep at the foot of the old houses, sweeping down with it the dust and refuse deposited at the corner-stones by the residents. As the dust-carts could not pass through, the inhabitants trusted to storms to wash their always miry alley; for how could it be clean? When the summer sun shed its perpendicular rays on Paris like a sheet of gold, but as piercing as the point of a sword, it lighted up the blackness of this street for a few minutes without drying the permanent damp that rose from the ground-floor to the first story of these dark and silent tenements. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 1810
Author: Balzac, Honoré de
Release Date: Aug 29, 2005
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Translator: Bell, Clara, 1834-1927

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