At six o'clock next morning two vehicles with postilions, prison vans, called in the vigorous language of the populace, paniers a salade, came out of La Force to drive to the Conciergerie by the Palais de Justice. Few loafers in Paris can have failed to meet this prison cell on wheels; still, though most stories are written for Parisian readers, strangers will no doubt be satisfied to have a description of this formidable machine. Who knows? A police of Russia, Germany, or Austria, the legal body of countries to whom the Salad-basket" is an unknown machine, may profit by it; and in several foreign countries there can be no doubt that an imitation of this vehicle would be a boon to prisoners..."
- | Author: Honoré De Balzac, James Waring
- | Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- | Publication Date: Sep 01, 2017
- | Number of Pages: 114 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1975972422
- | ISBN-13: 9781975972424