sainte-honorine

Updated: June 21, 2025

And necessarily the burning desire of the multitude, the holy madness of the universal joy, was destined to sweep aside the rigid, morose conceptions of a well-regulated society in which the ever-recurring epidemical attacks of religious hallucination are condemned as prejudicial to good order and healthiness of mind. The Sainte-Honorine Ward, on hearing the story, likewise revolted.

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete: Lourdes, Rome and Paris