fifth-class

Updated: May 4, 2025

He only suffered pain by fits and starts, but he had quite lost the use of his legs, which his wife, who accompanied him, moved for him as though they had been dead legs, whenever they became too heavy, weighty like bars of lead. "Yes, monsieur," he said, "such as you see me, I was formerly fifth-class professor at the Lycee Charlemagne.

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