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Paris Noir

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by Jacques Yonnet


  See note p.272 on Rifodés and Malingreux‚ ch.ix‚ p.148.

  * Mont-Fêtard

  Supposedly one of the interim deformations of Mons Cetardus‚ the origin of Mouffetard.

  * Oléron

  Island to the south of La Rochelle‚ off the west coast of France.

  Chapter XVI

  * Kirity-Penmarc’h

  Important fishing port on the Penmarc’h peninsula to the south- west of Quimper in Brittany.

  * De profundis clamavi‚ Domine‚ Domine… Fiant aures tuae intendentes in vocem …

  Out of the deep have I called unto thee‚ O Lord: Lord hear my voice./ O let thine ears consider well: the voice of my complaint … Psalm CXXX.

  * Lazare

  Dictionnaire administratif et historique des rues de Paris et de ses monuments‚ Felix and Louis Lazare‚ Paris‚ 1844‚ 2nd ed. 1855.

  * Jehan Augier

  From 1268 to1276‚ Jehan Augier was head of the ancient guild of merchant shippers an extremely powerful body in the early history of Paris‚ whose Provost was known until the late fourteenth century as the Prévôt des Marchands d’Eau and effectively acted as head of the City Council‚ based from the mid-14th century in what was to become known as the Hôtel de Ville.

 

 

 


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