Les Misérables

Victor Hugo

I History of Corinthe from Its Foundation The Parisians who nowadays on entering on the Rue Rambuteau at the end near the Halles, notice on their right, opposite the Rue Mondétour, a basket-maker’s shop having for its sign a basket in the form of Napoleon the Great with this inscription:— Napoleon Is Made Wholly Of Willow, have no suspicion of the terrible scenes which this very spot witnessed hardly thirty years ago. It was there that lay the Rue de la Chanvrerie, which an…