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Updated: May 27, 2025

Up to this time they had exchanged a good morning when they met on the stairs or in the street, but as Mme Goujet had rendered some small services on the first day of her illness, Gervaise invited them on the occasion of the baptism. These people were from the Department du Nond. The mother repaired laces, while the son, a blacksmith by trade, worked in a factory.

Émile Zola - L'Assommoir