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fiction; prose Literature in Translation LCSH Lix Bayard, E. Brion Vogel, H. Delacroix, E. De Neuville Valnay Zier, E. Engravings

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Mrs. Margaret B. Sage

Marius.

The Street Arab on the Barricades.

CONTENTS

BOOK FIRST. -- PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM.

I. Parvalus 1

II. Some of his Particular Characteristics 1

III. He is Agreeable 3

IV. He may be of Use 4

V. His Frontiers 4

VI. A Bit of History 6

VII. The Gamin should have his Place in the Classifications of India 8

VIII. In which the Reader will find a Charming Saying of the Last King 10

IX. The Old Soul of Gaul 11

X. Ecce Paris, ecce Homo 12

XI. To Scoff, to Reign 15

XII. The Future Latent in the People 17

XIII. Little Gavroche 17

BOOK SECOND. -- THE GREAT BOURGEOIS.

I. Ninety Years and Thirty-two Teeth 20

II. Like Master, Like House 21

III. Luc-Esprit 22

IV. A Centernarian Aspirant 23

V. Basque and Nicolette 24

VI. In which Magnon and her Two Children are seen 25

VII. Rule: No One except in the Evening 27

VIII. Two do not make a Pair 27

BOOK THIRD. -- THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON.

I. An Ancient Salon 29

II. One of the Red Spectres of that Epoch 33

III. Requiescant 38

IV. End of the Brigand 45

V. The Utility of going to Mass, in order to become a Revolutionist 48

VI. The Consequences of having met a Warden 50

VII. Some Petticoat 56

VIII. Marble against Granite 60

BOOK FOURTH. -- THE FRIENDS OF THE ABC.

I. A Group which barely missed becoming Historic 65

II. Blondeau's Funeral Oration by Bossuet 77

III. Marius' Astonishments 82

IV. The Back Room of the Cafè Musain 83

V. Enlargement of Horizon 89

VI. Res Augusta 93

BOOK FIFTH. -- THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE.

I. Marius Indigent 95

II. Marius Poor 97

III. Marius Grown Up 100

IV. M. Mabeuf 104

V. Poverty a Good Neighbor for Misery 108

VI. The Substitute 110

BOOK SIXTH. -- THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS.

I. The Sobriquet; Mode of Formation of Family Names 115

II. Lux Facta Est 117

III. Effect of the Spring 119

IV. Beginning of a Great Malady 120

V. Divers Claps of Thunder fall on Ma'am Bougon 123

VI. Taken Prisoner 124

VII. Adventures of the Letter U delivered over to Conjuntures 127

VIII. The Veterans themselves can be Happy 128

IX. Eclipse 130

BOOK SEVENTH. -- PATRON MINETTE.

I. Mines and Miners 132

II. The Lowest Depths 134

III. Babet, Gueulemer, Claquesous, and Montparnasse 136

IV. Composition of the Troupe 138

BOOK EIGHTH. -- THE WICKED POOR MAN.

I. Marius, while seeking a Girl in a Bonnet encounters a Man in a Cap 141

II. Treasure Trove 142

III. Quadrifons 144

IV. A Rose in Misery 148

V. A Providential Peep-Hole 154

VI. The Wild Man in his Lair 156

VII. Strategy and Tactics 160

VIII. The Ray of Light in the Hovel 163

IX. Jondrette comes near Weeping 165

X. Tariff of Licensed Cabs, Two Francs and Hour 169

XI. Offer of Service from Misery to Wretchedness 172

XII. The Use made of M. Leblanc's Five-Franc Piece 174

XIII. Solus cum Solo, in Loco Remoto, non cogitabuntur orare Pater Noster 179

XIV. In which a Police Agent bestows Two Fistfuls on a Lawyer 181

XV. Jondrette makes his Purchases 185

XVI. In which will be found the Words to an English Air which was in Fashion in 1832 187

XVII. The Use made of Marius' Five-Franc Piece 190

XVIII. Marius' Two Chairs from a Vis-a-Vis 194

XIX. Occupying One's Self with Obscure Depths 196

XX. The Trap 199

XXI. One should always begin by arresting the Victims 222

XXII. The Little One who was crying in Volume Two 226

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