Excerpt from Les Viveurs d'Autrefois, Vol. 1
Sur le quai qui longe le vieux Louvre des Valois, un peu avant le fameux balcon du haut duquel le badaud parisien croit sérieusement que Charles IX a fait feu sur son peuple, un homme marchait avec une rapidité inégale, preuve certaine d'un és prit en proie à une vive agitation. Il allait, s'arrêtait, se remettait en marche, puis s'arrêtait°encore. Son allure avait quelque chose de heurté, de saccadé, si l'on peut se servir de ces expressions en pareil cas.
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