saints-peres

Updated: June 11, 2025

The Representatives, on quitting M. Daru, bent their steps on the side of the Rue des Saints-Pères, and left the soldiers behind them. At that moment the soldiers had only been instructed to prevent their meeting in the Palace of the Assembly; they could quietly form themselves into a column in the street, and set forth.

Victor Hugo - The History of a Crime: The Testimony of an Eye-Witness