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Updated: May 26, 2025
Although confined for five years from the age of fourteen to that of nineteen in the rigid and aristocratic convent of Picpus, she had been enabled to see much of Paris life, during the waning epoch of Louis XVI's reign and the times of morbid fashionable excitement immediately preceding the great Revolution.
The Picpus Fathers, like many other Catholic brothers, were great missionaries, carrying on this service in what were then called the Sandwich Islands, now better known as the Hawaiian Islands, under the Government of the United States. At that time, however, the islands formed an independent state under a native king and there was a great deal to be done by the missionaries that went there.
Judith might have been tempted to do that sort of thing; she was a Jewess. But a Christian monk! I cannot get over it! The Chevalier de Rohan. He is Born Too Late. His Debts. Messina Ceded to the French. The King of Spain Meditates Revenge. The Comte de Monterey. Madame de Villars as Conspirator. The Picpus Schoolmaster. The Plot Fails. Discovery and Retribution.
Above the wall, at the bottom of the court, tall trees were visible. When a ray of sunlight enlivened the courtyard, when a glass of wine cheered up the porter, it was difficult to pass Number 62 Little Picpus Street without carrying away a smiling impression of it. Nevertheless, it was a sombre place of which one had had a glimpse. The threshold smiled; the house prayed and wept.
He had posted himself in front of Turenne, disputing foot to foot with him the Grande Rue Saint Antoine, and during the intervals of relaxation of the enemy's attacks, he rode off towards Picpus to encourage Tavannes, who was repelling with his customary vigour every attack made by Saint-Mégrin, or to hold in check, on the side of the Seine and Charenton Navailles, one of Turenne's best lieutenants.
It is my purpose, at the proper time, to entrust this precious knowledge to a chosen few who will perpetuate it and use it worthily." "Wonderful, wonderful!" I cried, "and now tell me, if you will, about the house on the Rue Picpus. Did you ever visit the place?" "We did, and found that no buildings had stood there for fifty years, so we did not pursue the search."
I managed, however, to penetrate within the precincts by attaching myself to the cortège of an English friend, who was journeying thither under special official orders, to investigate the case of an English Sister named Garret. In the Rue de Picpus, near Mazas prison, stand two large buildings, each surrounded by high walls, above which may be seen green trees at intervals.
Half a century ago, in that ordinary, popular tongue, which is all compounded of traditions, which persists in calling the Institut les Quatre-Nations, and the Opera-Comique Feydeau, the precise spot whither Jean Valjean had arrived was called le Petit Picpus.
When I lived in Paris, I had no regularity in my wanderings, no method in my sight-seeing, following a perhaps wayward fancy, and enjoying myself the better for it. One beautiful morning I sauntered out from my hotel, with a friend, who was also a stranger in Paris. "Where shall we go?" he asked. "To a little cemetery called Picpus, far away from here."
They needed a messenger both intelligent and trustworthy, and for this mission she gave the Chevalier an ally in the person of an ex-teacher in the Flemish school at Picpus, on the Faubourg Saint Antoine.
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