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Built on a slippery hill, it overlooked the Ville d'Avray with smoky Paris below, and in the distance there was a view of the plain of Mont-rouge and the road to Orleans, which led also to Balzac's beloved Tours. The principal staircase was outside, because Balzac, in designing the house, found that a staircase seriously interfered with the symmetry of the rooms.
Mais du haut du Cramont, on voit plus nettement leur forme, et leur ensemble, on distingue, par exemple, qu'ils sont eux-mêmes composés de grandes feuilles pyramidales; on voit que les injures du temps ont détruit la pointe du Mont-Rouge, tandis que celles des deux autres pyramides sont demeurées entières.
Chacun de ces feuillets, vu de l'Allée-Blanche, paroît une grande montagne, je les ai décrits dans le chapitre précédent sous le noms de Mont-Pétéret, Mont-Rouge, et Mont-Broglia, § 830, 831, 834.
The smell of the people and their thoughts were repulsive to him. But everything had changed as the result of a commonplace tragedy which he had lately witnessed. He had taken a very modest lodging at the top of the Mont-rouge quarter, not far from Christophe and Cecile.
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