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Updated: May 15, 2025
The rue du Palais is continued in a straight line by the short rue de Monte-a-Regret, which leads to the place des Arenes, where the executions take place, and which probably owes its name to that circumstances. There is therefore but little distance to go, few houses to pass, and few windows to look from.
Convicts and prisoners from the hulks forthwith investigated this contrivance, standing as it did on the monarchical borderland of the old system and the frontier of modern legislation; they instantly gave it the name of l'Abbaye de Monte-a-Regret. The high antiquity of this kind of slang is also noteworthy.
And he drew away from Napolitas, of whom he had been very suspicious from the first. Then he said to his pals in an undertone: "He is on the bottom step of the Abbaye de Monte-a-Regret, but I am the Prior! I will show you how well I know how to come round the beaks. I mean to snatch this boy's nut from their jaws." "For the sake of his breeches!" said Fil-de-Soie with a smile.
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