charamaule's

Updated: May 10, 2025

At a time like this one distrusts everybody." "On the contrary," I said to him, "one trusts everybody. I will be in the Colbert Arcade at nine o'clock." And I left him. I re-entered my asylum. I was tired, I was hungry, I had recourse to Charamaule's chocolate and to a small piece of bread which I had still left. I sank down into an arm-chair, I ate and I slept. Some slumbers are gloomy.

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