Chapter 167: Chapter 167

VII Rule: Receive No One Except in the Evening Such was M. Luc-Esprit Gillenormand, who had not lost his hair—which was gray rather than white—and which was always dressed in “dog’s ears.” To sum up, he was venerable in spite of all this. He had something of the eighteenth century about him; frivolous and great. In 1814 and during the early years of the Restoration, M. Gillenormand, who was still young—he was only seventy-four—lived in the Faubourg Saint Germain, Rue Servandoni,…