John Bloundelle-Burton's Book and Story
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Traitor and True
The doors of the Taverne Gabrielle, in the Rue des Franc Bourgeois in the Marais, stood open to all passers-by, and also to the cool wind blowing from the south-east. This evening, perhaps because it was summer-time, and perhaps, also, because it was supper-time for all in Paris from his Splendid Majesty down to the lowest who had any supper to eat, the appropriately named tavern--since directly opposite to it was the h?tel which Henri IV. had built for the fair Gabrielle d'Estrées--was not so full as it would be later on.