Chapter 7
Volume 3: 3: Marius · Book 1: 1: Paris Atomised I
7: The Gamin Will Have His Place Among the Classifications of India
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THE Parisian order of gamins is almost a caste. One might say: nobody wants to have anything to do with them.
This word gamin was printed for the first time, and passed from the popular language into that of literature, in 1834. It was in a little work entitled Claude Gueux that the word first appeared. It created a great uproar. The word was adopted.