hochette

Updated: July 15, 2025

"Listen, then, to what happened, no longer ago than yesterday, in the Rue de la Hochette. A man was cheapening a fowl." "Well, how could that injure me, abbe?" "This way. The fowl was not fat. The purchaser refused to give eighteen sous for it, saying that he could not afford eighteen sous for the skin of a fowl from which M. Fouquet had sucked all the fat." "Go on."

Alexandre Dumas - The Vicomte De Bragelonne

"Listen, then, to what happened, no longer ago than yesterday, in the Rue de la Hochette. A man was cheapening a fowl." "Well, how could that injure me, abbe?" "This way. The fowl was not fat. The purchaser refused to give eighteen sous for it, saying that he could not afford eighteen sous for the skin of a fowl from which M. Fouquet had sucked all the fat." "Go on."

Alexandre Dumas - Ten Years Later