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Les Misérables

Note 57 — Chapter IV · —GAVROCHE’S EXCESS OF ZEAL

Isabel Florence Hapgood translation

(return) [But some prisons still remain, and I am going to put a stop to this sort of public order. Does any one wish to play at skittles? The whole ancient world fell in ruin, when the big ball rolled. Good old folks, let us smash with our crutches that Louvre where the monarchy displayed itself in furbelows. We have forced its gates. On that day, King Charles X. did not stick well and came unglued.]

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