Name: From the court of miracles - Maurice Vloberg - Superb Binding With Sending 1928 n°1
Brand: Librairie L'Ostal Arverne
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Beautiful bibliophilic work with superb dedication by the author to Paul Funck-Brentano
famous surgeon and professor of gynecology, member of the Academy of Medicine and the Academy of Surgery.

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From La Cour des Miracles to the Gibet de Monfaucon: superb historical work
even ethnographic or sociological whose author Maurice Vloberg (1885-1967)
thus describes the origin and its material inspired by Victor Hugo

Study of the Parisian principality of Argot, its stronghold, its troops, its discipline,

his mastery, his style, his collusion and his half-account work with thieves;

finally the end of his exploits and his antics with sinister pitchforks.

(Misery and Determinism, themes still relevant)

The Cour des Miracles was, under the Ancien Régime, a set of spaces
of non-law composed of districts of Paris, so named because the alleged
infirmities of the beggars who had made it their place of residence
ordinary people disappeared there at nightfall, "as if by a miracle"

Coming from the countryside to look, in vain, for work, or destitute from the cities,

the most disadvantaged swelled the ranks of the Courts of Miracles in the seventeenth century,

under the reigns of Louis XIII and Louis XIV.