Les Misérables

Victor Hugo

II In Which the Reader Will Peruse Two Verses, Which Are of the Devil’s Composition, Possibly Before proceeding further, it will be to the purpose to narrate in some detail, a singular occurrence which took place at about the same epoch, in Montfermeil, and which is not lacking in coincidence with certain conjectures of the indictment. There exists in the region of Montfermeil a very ancient superstition, which is all the more curious and all the more precious, because a popular supers…