Chapter 3
Volume 2: 2: Cosette · Book 5: 5: A Dark Chase Needs a Silent Hound
3: See the Plan of Paris of 172?
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SOME three hundred paces on, he reached a point where the street forked. It divided into two streets, the one turning off obliquely to the left, the other to the right. Jean Valjean had before him the two branches of a Y. Which should he choose? He did not hesitate, but took the right.
Why? Because the left branch led towards the faubourg that is to say, towards the inhabited region, and the right branch towards the country that is, towards the uninhabited region.