boischevron

Updated: May 7, 2025

In order to furnish an idea of the private establishment of the Bishop of D , and of the manner in which those two sainted women subordinated their actions, their thoughts, their feminine instincts even, which are easily alarmed, to the habits and purposes of the Bishop, without his even taking the trouble of speaking in order to explain them, we cannot do better than transcribe in this place a letter from Mademoiselle Baptistine to Madame the Vicomtess de Boischevron, the friend of her childhood.

Victor Hugo - Les Misérables

Now, in order to convey an idea of what passed at that table, we cannot do better than to transcribe here a passage from one of Mademoiselle Baptistine's letters to Madame Boischevron, wherein the conversation between the convict and the Bishop is described with ingenious minuteness. ". . . This man paid no attention to any one. He ate with the voracity of a starving man.

Victor Hugo - Les Misérables