CHAPTER V

My mother realises that I am fifteen years old, and that _la marette_ and _la pipée_ will not lead to a brilliant future for me--I enter the office of Me. Mennesson, notary, as errand-boy, otherwise guttersnipe--Me. Mennesson and his clerks--La Fontaine-Eau-Claire

## CHAPTER VI Who the assassin was and who the assassinated--Auguste Picot--Equality before the law--Last exploits of Marot--His execution

## CHAPTER VII Spring at Villers-Cotterets--Whitsuntide--The Abbé Grégoire invites me to dance with his niece--Red books--The Chevalier de Faublas--Laurence and Vittoria--A dandy of 1818

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