"Pay attention.
This is the Rue Platriere, now called Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau, on account of a singular household which lived in it sixty years ago.
This consisted of Jean-Jacques and Therese. From time to time, little beings were born there.
Therese gave birth to them, Jean-Jacques represented them as foundlings."
And Enjolras addressed Courfeyrac roughly:--
"Silence in the presence of Jean-Jacques! I admire that man. He denied his own children, that may be; but he adopted the people."
Not one of these young men articulated the word:
The Emperor. Jean Prouvaire alone sometimes said Napoleon; all the others said "Bonaparte."
Enjolras pronounced it "Buonaparte."
Marius was vaguely surprised.
Initium sapientiae.
BOOK FOURTH.--THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C
CHAPTER IV
THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN
One of the conversations among the young men, at which Marius was present and in which he sometimes joined, was a veritable shock to his mind.
This took place in the back room of the Cafe Musain.
Nearly all the Friends of the A B C had convened that evening.
The argand lamp was solemnly lighted.