ex-dunce

Updated: July 12, 2026

I belong to Paris; I've come on account of a poor fellow whom I wish to get admitted into the Asylum of the Invalids of Labour." "Oh! all right. Well, I'm a child of Paris, too." Then Massot laughed. And indeed he was a child of Paris, son of a chemist of the St. Denis district, and an ex-dunce of the Lycee Charlemagne, where he had not even finished his studies.

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete: Lourdes, Rome and Paris

I belong to Paris; I've come on account of a poor fellow whom I wish to get admitted into the Asylum of the Invalids of Labour." "Oh! all right. Well, I'm a child of Paris, too." Then Massot laughed. And indeed he was a child of Paris, son of a chemist of the St. Denis district, and an ex-dunce of the Lycee Charlemagne, where he had not even finished his studies.

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 1

I belong to Paris; I've come on account of a poor fellow whom I wish to get admitted into the Asylum of the Invalids of Labour." "Oh! all right. Well, I'm a child of Paris, too." Then Massot laughed. And indeed he was a child of Paris, son of a chemist of the St. Denis district, and an ex-dunce of the Lycee Charlemagne, where he had not even finished his studies.

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Complete