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She loved the French world and the French sights and sounds these tall, dingy houses of the banlieue, the dregs of a great architecture; the advertisements; the look of the streets. The train slackened into the Nord Station. The blue-frocked porters crowded into the carriages. "C'est tout, madame? Vous n'avez pas de grands bagages?" "No, nothing. Find me a cab at once."
She was in the seventh heaven when he won a hurdle-race in the Champ de Mars. They made excursions into the banlieue, and farther afield yet, like a couple of the Pays Latin in their first loves. The cabinets of Bercy and St. Cloud knew them; so did the arbors of Asnières, where, in oilskin and vareuse, muster for their Sabbat the ancient mariners of the Seine.
He administered the oath of allegiance to the inhabitants of the banlieue within three miles of the fort according to the capitulation, and established a court to try their disputes. Many and grave difficulties faced the new governor and his officers.
So that the sharpshooters of the line ranged on the outlook behind their paving-stone dike and the sharpshooters of the banlieue massed at the corner of the street suddenly pointed out to each other something moving through the smoke. At the moment when Gavroche was relieving a sergeant, who was lying near a stone door-post, of his cartridges, a bullet struck the body.
Germain, the driver and David between them with difficulty discovered a side street which answered to the name Dora had several times given. They had reached one of the most squalid parts of the western banlieue.
He disburdened his breast about Clichy; of all the phases of his decline from the fashionable man in the Bois to the shabby skulker in the banlieue, he had something to say. He had been everybody's victim. The world had been against him. Friends had proved themselves ungrateful, and foes had acted meanly. Nobody could imagine half his sufferings.
You can't admire Manet and Bastien-Lepage "le Grévin de cabaret, le Siraudin de banlieue," he names the gentle Bastien; nor ought you to admire Manet and Moreau, we may add. And Huysmans did precisely what he preached against. Moreau was a man of wide intellectual interests.
Questions of doctrine, questions of building, points of forestry, of agriculture, of drainage, of feudal law, all came to the Abbot for settlement. He held the scales of justice in all the Abbey banlieue which stretched over many a mile of Hampshire and of Surrey. To the monks his displeasure might mean fasting, exile to some sterner community, or even imprisonment in chains.
"Fichtre!" ejaculated Gavroche. "They are killing my dead men for me." A second bullet struck a spark from the pavement beside him. A third overturned his basket. Gavroche looked and saw that this came from the men of the banlieue.
The remainder of the troops were confined to their barracks, without reckoning the regiments of the environs of Paris. Power being uneasy, held suspended over the menacing multitude twenty-four thousand soldiers in the city and thirty thousand in the banlieue. Divers reports were in circulation in the cortege.
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