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L'Assommoir
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1877
- Originally in
- Originally in French
- Pages
- Pages 420
Through the glass at the back of Père Colombe's dram shop, the copper still sweats its slow trickle of spirit, and the men of the Goutte-d'Or watch it the way other men watch the sea. Gervaise Macquart, a laundress with a limp, asks so little: work in peace, bread every day, her children brought up decently, and to die in her own bed.
Yes, when one reaches the end, one might wish to die in one’s bed.
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