Chapter 8
Volume 2: 2: Cosette · Book 6: 6: Petit Picpus I
8: Post Corda Lapides
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AFTER sketching its moral features, it may not be useless to point out in a few words its material configuration. The reader has already some idea of it.
The convent of the Petit Picpus Saint Antoine almost entirely filled the large trapezium which was formed by the intersection of the Rue Polonceau, the Rue Droit Mur, the Petite Rue Picpus, and the built-up alley called in the old plans Rue Aumarais. These four streets surrounded this trapezium like a ditch. The convent was composed of several buildings and a garden. The principal building, taken as a whole, was an aggregation of hybrid constructions which, in a bird's-eye view, presented with considerable accuracy the form of a gibbet laid down on the ground.