billecoq's

Updated: June 25, 2025

The Café Leblond was given over to pillage. Billecoq's establishment was bombarded to such a degree that it had to be pulled down the next day. Before Jouvain's house lay a heap of corpses, amongst them an old man with his umbrella, and a young man with his eye-glass.

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