lethiere's

Updated: June 28, 2025

To us the portress, the old pensioner, and myself he looked like one of the old Romans standing behind the Consuls in Lethiere's picture of the Death of the Sons of Brutus. "'He was a good-plucked one, the old Lascar! said the pensioner in his soldierly fashion.

Honoré de Balzac - Gobseck