Under the Red Robe

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Genres: Nonfiction

Zaton's eating-house stands scarcely a hundred paces from St Jacques la Boucherie, and half the company went thither with us. The evening was wet, the light in the streets was waning, the streets themselves were dirty and slippery. There were few passers in the Rue St Antoine; and our party, which earlier in the day must have attracted notice and a crowd, crossed unmarked, and entered without interruption the paved triangle which lies immediately behind the church. I saw in the distance one of t

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he Cardinal's guard loitering in front of the scaffolding round the new Hotel Richelieu; and the sight of the uniform gave me pause for a moment. But it was too late to repent.
A 1894 novel, concerning Cardinal Richelieu and the Day of Dupes, by Stanley John Weyman, an English novelist sometimes referred to as the “Prince of Romance”.

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