Verrerie

As you walk along this street, you'll quickly come to the rue Verrerie, which is worth noting for a number of reasons: first, it's a beautifully preserved medieval cobblestone street, and, second, I used to live there, at No. 11, with my wife (who wasn't my wife then).

McSweeney's 2009

Marius resumed: — “Now that I think of it, you ought to know my address: something might happen, one never knows; I live with that friend named Courfeyrac, Rue de la Verrerie, No. 16.”

Les Miserables 2008

Rue de la Verrerie “for political reasons”; this quarter was one where, at that epoch, insurrection liked to install itself.

Les Miserables 2008

It chanced that in the Rue de la Verrerie, they passed in front of

Les Miserables 2008

Balestre called for a reduction in engine power and demanded that the Verrerie S-bend be removed from the forthcoming French Grand Prix by cutting the circuit in two.

Chequered Conflict Maurice Hamilton 2008

He searched in his pocket, pulled out his penknife, and with the blade he wrote on the plaster of the wall: — “16 Rue de la Verrerie.”

Les Miserables 2008

The streets of Saint-Denis and Saint-Martin, with their innumerable ramifications, went up side by side like two great trees intertwining their branches; while such streets as the Rue de la Plâterie, Rue de la Verrerie, Rue de la Tixeranderie, etc., wound in tortuous lines through the whole.

II. A Bird’s-Eye View of Paris. Book III 1917

"Now that I think of it, you ought to know my address: something might happen, one never knows; I live with that friend named Courfeyrac, Rue de la Verrerie, No. 16."

Les Miserables, Volume IV, Saint Denis 1862

It chanced that in the Rue de la Verrerie, they passed in front of Courfeyrac's door.

Les Miserables, Volume IV, Saint Denis 1862

Courfeyrac was no longer the imperturbable inhabitant of the Latin Quarter, he had gone to live in the Rue de la Verrerie "for political reasons"; this quarter was one where, at that epoch, insurrection liked to install itself.

Les Miserables, Volume IV, Saint Denis 1862