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"Those who anticipated the discovery of a crime, were unhappily not deceived. The commissary was convinced of this as soon as he crossed the threshold. Everything in the first room pointed with a sad eloquence to the recent presence of a malefactor. The furniture was...
In the Paris evening papers of Tuesday, February 28, 1866, under the head of Local Items, the following announcement appeared: "A daring robbery, committed against one of our most eminent bankers, M. Andre Fauvel, caused great excitement this morning throughout the...
The traveller who wishes to go from Poitiers to London by the shortest route will find that the simplest way is to take a seat in the stage-coach which runs to Saumur; and when you book your place, the polite clerk tells you that you must take your seat punctually at...
The cold on the 8th of February, 186-, was more intense than the Parisians had experienced during the whole of the severe winter which had preceded it, for at twelve o'clock on that day Chevalier's thermometer, so well known by the denizens of Paris, registered three...
It was a Thursday evening, the fifteenth of October; and although only half-past six o'clock, it had been dark for some time already. The weather was cold, and the sky was as black as ink, while the wind blew tempestuously, and the rain fell in torrents.
There is not in all Paris a house better kept or more inviting-looking than No. 23 in Grange Street. As soon as you enter, you are struck by a minute, extreme neatness, which reminds you of Holland, and almost sets you a-laughing. The neighbors might use the brass plate...
In the Paris evening papers of Tuesday, February 28, 1866, under the head of Local Items, the following announcement appeared:
At about eleven o'clock in the evening of the 20th of February, 186 -, which chanced to be Shrove Sunday, a party of detectives left the police station near the old Barriere d'Italie to the direct south of Paris. Their mission was to explore the district extending on...
On the first Sunday in the month of August, 1815, at ten o'clock precisely - as on every Sunday morning - the sacristan of the parish church at Sairmeuse sounded the three strokes of the bell which warn the faithful that the priest is ascending the steps of the altar to...
There is not, perhaps, in all Paris, a quieter street than the Rue St. Gilles in the Marais, within a step of the Place Royale. No carriages there; never a crowd. Hardly is the silence broken by the regulation drums of the Minims Barracks near by, by the chimes of the...
On Thursday, the 9th of July, 186-, Jean Bertaud and his son, well known at Orcival as living by poaching and marauding, rose at three o'clock in the morning, just at daybreak, to go fishing.
Vengeance! that is the first, the only thought, when a man finds himself victimized, when his honor and fortune, his present and future, are wrecked by a vile conspiracy! The torment he endures under such circumstances can only be alleviated by the prospect of...
In the night from the 22nd to the 23rd of June, 1871, towards one o'clock in the morning, the Paris suburb of Sauveterre, the principal and most densely populated suburb of that pretty town, was startled by the furious gallop of a horse on its ill-paved streets.
On Thursday, the 6th of March, 1862, two days after Shrove Tuesday, five women belonging to the village of La Jonchere presented themselves at the police station at Bougival.
Emile Gaboriau (1832-1873)"Se venger !...Telle est la première, l’unique pensée, lorsqu’on se voit victime d’une injustice atroce, de quelque guet-apens infâme où s’engloutissent l’honneur et la fortune, le présent, l’avenir et jusqu’à l’espérance.Les tourments qu’on...
Emile Gaboriau (1832-1873)"C’était le 15 octobre, un jeudi soir.Il n’était que six heures et demie, mais depuis longtemps déjà la nuit était venue.Il faisait froid, le ciel était noir comme de l’encre, la vent soufflait en tempête, il pleuvait.Les domestiques de l’hôtel...
Emile Gaboriau (1832-1873)"C’était l’autre soir.La journée finie, nous étions tous réunis, amis et voisins, chez les Coutanceau, et nous devisions – les fenêtres ouvertes, à cause de la grande chaleur.De braves gens, ces Coutanceau, depuis l’aïeul, le capitaine, un...
Emile Gaboriau (1832-1873)"Il y a de cela trois ou quatre mois, un homme d’une quarantaine d’années, correctement vêtu de noir, se présentait aux bureaux de rédaction du Petit Journal.Il apportait un manuscrit d’une écriture à faire pâmer d’aise l’illustre Brard, le...
Emile Gaboriau (1832-1873)"Dans la nuit du 22 au 23 juin 1871, vers une heure, le faubourg de Paris, qui est le principal et le plus populeux faubourg de la jolie ville de Sauveterre, fut mis en émoi par le galop frénétique d’un cheval sonnant sur les pavés...
Emile Gaboriau (1832-1873)"Il est toujours bon de consulter les hommes spéciaux.Aussi, avant de livrer ce volume à mon imprimeur, j’ai cru devoir soumettre le manuscrit à un de mes amis, sous-chef dans une de nos administrations publiques.Huit jours après, il me...
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