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Updated: June 25, 2025
If we look about us as we approach the town, we shall see that the railway is cut through an extraordinary natural fortification of rocks; and if we ascend the heights of Le Roule, we shall obtain, what a Frenchman calls, a vue féerique du Cherbourg.
There was another customer in the cafe; and this other customer, whom I ended by discovering, went out at the same time as our man and heard him ask somebody in the street which was the nearest underground station for Neuilly." "Capital, that. And, in Neuilly, by asking questions on every side, you ferreted him out?" "And even learnt his name, Chief: Hubert Lautier, of the Avenue du Roule.
The pipe is generally of red earth, the stem made of ash, about three or four feet long, and highly decorated with feathers, hair, and porcupine-quills. . . . This is bois roule, or "rolled wood," a poor kind of tobacco rolled with various kinds of leaves, such as the sumach and dogwood. The Indian name is kinnikinick.
It's a long way from the Rue Saint Jacques to the Croix-des- Sablons, and the almanac does not lie when it announces that in November the days are short. "When I arrived at the Roule it was quite dark, and a black haze covered the deserted road. And sorrowful were my thoughts in the darkness.
I found the house even better than its reputation, and by far superior to the warren. We took a coach, and Patu said to the driver, "To Chaillot." "I understand, your honour." After a drive of half an hour, we stopped before a gate on which could be read, "Hotel du Roule." The gate was closed. A porter, sporting long mustachioes, came out through a side-door and gravely examined us.
My architect, at a cursory glance, judged that the construction and completion of this edifice would easily cost as much as eighteen hundred thousand livres. This expense being no more than I could afford, I commissioned him to choose me a spacious site for the buildings and gardens over by Roule and La Pepiniere.
"At your service, mademoiselle," he replied with alacrity. "How long do you stay in Paris?" "I may be called away at any time." "Well, then, come to-morrow. I shall be free towards four o'clock. Square du Roule. You cannot miss the house. Any one there will tell you where lives citizeness Lange." "At your service, mademoiselle," he replied.
On Wednesday noon, at twelve, a female body was discovered afloat on the shore of the Barrière de Roule. This was, even if we presume that Marie Rogêt was thrown into the river within three hours after she left her mother's house, only three days from the time she left her home three days to an hour.
This horrible deed was executed so quickly that the countess did not utter a single cry or groan. Still seated, she remained with her face on the table. The pen had fallen from her hand. "The same blow as Fourline gave the little old man in the Rue du Roule," said the monster. "Another one who will talk no more her account is made."
The assistant found the unfortunate debtor up six pairs of stairs at the back of a yard at the further end of the Faubourg du Roule. La Palferine heard the preposterous demand 'A demand which I should qualify as illegal, he said when he told us the story, 'made, as it was, at seven o'clock in the morning.
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