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A Second Home by Honore de Balzac

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A Second Home
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ISBN/ASIN: 1452819718
Number of pages: 391

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The Rue du Tourniquet-Saint-Jean, formerly one of the darkest and most tortuous of the streets about the Hotel de Ville, zigzagged round the little gardens of the Paris Prefecture, and ended at the Rue Martroi, exactly at the angle of an old wall now pulled down. Here stood the turnstile to which the street owed its name...

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