Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
Image Attribution: Comte Stanis?aw Julian Ostroróg dit WALERY (1830-1890) (Public domain)

The sixth of January, 1482, is not, however, a day of which history has preserved the memory. There was nothing notable in the event which thus set the bells and the bourgeois of Paris in a ferment from early morning.

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