Henri Murger
Henri Murger
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It was the nineteenth of March, 184—. Should Rodolphe reach the age of Methuselah, he will never forget the date; for it was on that day, at three in the afternoon, that our friend issued from a banker’s where he had just received five hundred francs in current and sounding specie.

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