Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 7 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 7 On a certain beautiful evening in the autumn of the year 1665, a considerable crowd was collected upon that part of the Pont Neuf, which leads down into Rue Dauphine. The object which formed its centre, and upon which its attention was fixed, was a tightly closed carriage, which a police officer was doing his utmost to force open, while two of the four sergeants who were with him held the horses, and the other two the coachman, who had turned a deaf ear to the summons to halt, and had made no other reply to it than to whip his horses into a gallop. The struggle had been in progress some time when one of the doors was thrown suddenly and violently open, and a young officer, in the uniform of a captain of cavalry, leaped out upon the pavement, closing the door behind him at the same instant, but not so quickly that those who were nearest had not time to see a woman sitting back in the corner, wrapped in a cloak, and closely veiled, who seemed from the great pains she took to conceal her features to be deeply interested in remaining unknown. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.