L’Envers de l’Histoire Contemporaine: Madame de la Chanterie
The Seamy Side of History: Madame de la Chanterie
Also translated as The Brotherhood of Consolation: Madame de la Chanterie
Also translated as The Wrong Side of Paris
Madame de la Chanterie: The household and boarders/associates:
Godefroid
Madame de la Chanterie
Manon Godard – Maid/serving-woman
Abbe de Veze – performs early mass at Notre-Dame
Monseiur Alain – middle-class Paris citizen
Monsieur Nicolas – retired Colonel of the Gendarmerie (Marquis de Montauran, younger brother of Alphonse de Montauran, the commander of the Chouans who married Marie de Verneuil just before they were executed)
Monsieur Joseph – formerly Councillor to the Bench of the King’s Court in Paris (Lecamus, Baron de Tresnes)
One evening in September, 1836, Godefroid is leaning over the parapet, lost in contemplation. He overhears a conversation Continue reading