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>> Brie Carlisle: Today well be continuing.

Le miserable by Victor Hugo

chapter eight post Chorda

Lapides after

having sketched its moral face, it will not

prove unprofitable to point out in a few words its

material configuration. The reader already has

some idea of it. The convent of the petite

Picpus Saint Antoine filled almost the whole of the vast

trapezium which resulted from the intersection of

the rue Palinsau, the rue droit murden, rue

petite Picpiss, and the unused lane called

Rue Amreas. On old plans,

these four streets surrounded this trapezium like a

moat. The convent was composed of several

buildings and a garden. The principal

building, taken in its entirety, was a

juxtaposition of hybrid constructions

which, viewed from a birds eye view, outlined

with considerable exactness, a gibbet laid

flat on the ground. The main arm of the

gibbet occupied the whole of the fragment of the rue droit mur,

comprised between the rue petite picpus and the rue

paulensou. The lesser arm was a

lofty, grey, severe, grated facade which faced

the rue petite picpus. The carriage entrance,

number 62, marked its extremity.

Towards the center of this facade was a low

arched door, whitened with dust and

ashes, where the spiders wove their webs,

and which was open only for an hour or two on

Sundays and on rare occasions

when the coffin of a nun left the convent.

This was the public entrance of the church.

The elbow of the gibbet was a square hall which was used

as a servants hall and which the nuns called the

buttery. In the main arm were the cells of the

mothers, the sisters and the novices.

In the lesser arm lay the kitchens, the

refectory backed up by the cloisters and the

church. Between the door number

62 and the corner of the closed amara

slain was the school, which was not

visible from without. The remainder of the

trapezium formed the garden, which was much lower

than the level of the rue palanzeau, which caused the

walls to be very much higher on the inside than on the

outside. The garden,

which was slightly arched, had in its center, on

the summit of a hillock, a fine pointed and

conical fir tree, whence ran as

from the peaked boss of a shield, four grand

alleys, and ranged by twos in between the branchings of

these eight small ones, so that if the

enclosure had been circular, the geometrical plan

of the alleys would have resembled a cross superimposed on a

wheel. As the alleys all ended in the very

irregular walls of the garden, they were of unequal

length. They were bordered with currant

bushes. At the bottom, an alley of tall

poplars ran from the ruins of the old convent, which

was at the angle of the Rudroit Mur, to the house of the

little conventional, which was at the angle of the

Amarius lane in front of the little

convent, was what was called the little garden.

To this hole let the reader add a courtyard,

all sorts of varied angles formed by the interior

buildings, prison walls, the long

black line of roofs which bordered the other side of the rue

Palanceau for its sole perspective and

neighborhood. And he will be able to form for himself

a complete image of what the house of the Bernardines of the Petit

pickpiss was 40 years ago. The

Holy House had been built on the precise site of a famous

tennis ground of the 14th to the 16th century,

which was called the tennis ground of the 11,000

devils. All of these streets,

moreover, were more ancient than Paris.

These names, droit, myrrh and Ameraeus,

are very ancient. The streets which bear them are

very much more ancient still. Ameraeus

Lane was called Magot Lane. The rudroit myrrh

was called the Ruidus Eglintires. For God

opened flowers before man cut stones.

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Again, my name is Brie Carlisle, and

I hope you come back tomorrow, for the next bite

of Le Miserable.

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>> Brie Carlisle: Take a look at a book and let's

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Take it chapter by chapter one

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mountains we can climb

take your words go word line by.

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