La Comédie Humaine Tome 1 - Etudes De Moeurs - Scènes De La Vie Privée

ON a fine evening in the month of September, 1836, a man about thirty years of age was leaning on the parapet of that quay from which a spectator can look up the Seine from the Jardin des Plantes to Notre-Dame, and down, along the vast perspective of the river, to the Louvre.