Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Bath Keepers, or Paris in Those Days, Vol. 1
It was two o'clock on a cold, damp morning; the fine snow, which melted as soon as it touched the ground, made the streets slippery and dirty, and Rue Culture sainte-catherine, - then called couture-sainte-catherine, - although it was one of the broadest streets in Paris, was as black and gloomy as any blind alley in the Cite today.
But these things took place in the year one thousand six hundred and thirty-four; and I need not tell you that in those days no such devices for street lighting as lan terns, gas, or electric lights were known. The man who should have discovered the last-named invention, which, in truth, savors strongly of the magical, would surely have been subjected to the ordinary and extraordinary torture for a recompense.
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