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Updated: May 10, 2025

As at daybreak the loungers on Montmartre and the ramparts descended into the streets most windows in which were open, as they had been all night, with anxious female faces peering palely down-they saw the conveyances of the ambulances coming dismally along, and many an eye turned wistfully towards the litter on which lay the idol of the pleasure-loving Paris, with the dark, bareheaded figure walking beside it, onwards, onwards, till it reached the Hotel de Vandemar, and a woman's cry was heard at the entrance the mother's cry, "My son! my son!"

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - The Parisians — Complete