auvergants

Updated: July 18, 2025

It appears that one can say to a princess what one cannot say to a woman. There was Hippolyte Fortoul, of the climbing genus, of the worth of a Gustave Planche or of some Philarête Chasles, an ill-tempered writer who had become Minister of the Marine, which caused Béranger to say, "This Fortoul knows all the spars, including the 'greased pole." There were some Auvergants there. Two.

Victor Hugo - The History of a Crime: The Testimony of an Eye-Witness