Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066465605
The End of Evil Ways by Honoré de Balzac Pdf
At six o'clock next morning two vehicles with postilions, prison vans, called in the vigorous language of the populace, paniers a salade, came out of La Force to drive to the Conciergerie by the Palais de Justice. Few loafers in Paris can have failed to meet this prison cell on wheels; still, though most stories are written for Parisian readers, strangers will no doubt be satisfied to have a description of this formidable machine. Who knows? A police of Russia, Germany, or Austria, the legal body of countries to whom the "Salad-basket" is an unknown machine, may profit by it; and in several foreign countries there can be no doubt that an imitation of this vehicle would be a boon to prisoners.