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CHAPTER I

HISTORY OF CORINTHE

FROM ITS FOUNDATION

The Parisians who nowadays on entering on the Rue
Rambuteau at the end near the Halles, notice on their right,
opposite the Rue Mondetour, a basket-maker’s shop having
for its sign a basket in the form of Napoleon the Great with
this inscription:—

NAPOLEON IS MADE
WHOLLY OF WILLOW,

have no suspicion of the terrible scenes which this very
spot witnessed hardly thirty years ago.
It was there that lay the Rue de la Chanvrerie, which
ancient deeds spell Chanverrerie, and the celebrated public-
house called Corinthe.
The reader will remember all that has been said about
the barricade effected at this point, and eclipsed, by the way,
by the barricade Saint-Merry. It was on this famous barri-
cade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, now fallen into profound

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