Émile Zola
Image Attribution: Émile Zola (Public domain)
Image Attribution: Émile Zola (Public domain)
Bit by bit, such parts of the partitions as had remained unoccupied had become covered with inscriptions and drawings, a constantly rising flotsam and jetsam of scrawls traced there as on the margin of an ever-open book. There were caricatures of the students themselves, coarse witticisms fit to make a gendarme turn pale, epigrammatic sentences, addition sums, addresses, and so forth; while, above all else, written in big letters, and occupying the most prominent place, appeared this inscription: "On the 7th of June, Gorfu declared that he didn’t care a hang for Rome.—Signed, Godemard."
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