melle93: „The Rue de la Chanvrerie was hardly as long as the range of a carbine. Bossuet impro

melle93: „The Rue de la Chanvrerie was hardly as long as the range of a carbine. Bossuet improvised a speaking trumpet with his two hands, and shouted, ‘Courfeyrac! Courfeyrac! Ahoy!’ Courfeyrac heard the call, saw Bossuet, and came a few steps into the Rue de la Chanvrerie, crying a ‘What do you want?’ that was met on the way by a ‘Where are you going?’ ‘To make a barricade,’ answered Courfeyrac. ‘Well then, here! This is a good place! Make it here!’ ‘That’s true, Eagle,’ Said Courfeyrac. And at a sign from Courfeyrac, the band rushed into the Rue de la Chanvrerie.” Victor Hugo, Les Miserables Alright. This is my very first gingerbread house and it is supposed to be a mix between Hugo’s Corinthe and the actual building standing in its place. I have used @vapaus-ystavyys-tasaarvo  amazing and interesting posts about illustrations and maps for the Corinthe as a basis. The changes/my interpretations: Yes, the first floor has only one window in Hugo’s novel. The real building has three. Mine has two. xD Because one looked just really weird and it is the room with a billiard-table and considering that Bossuet spends a lot of time there…accidents happen? So we are left with one usable window. The whole story about the poteau, the original name and the painter(?) who painted a bundle of Corinth grapes…well. I have no idea what this “poteau” looked like. I included it in form of the grapes in the corner of the building. My desperation to figure this poteau-matter out led me to look up a ‘not abridged’ German translation – which did not include said story. But it is the explanation for the thing that looks like a weird vintage Dalek next to the corner: a guard stone. The common French word for this seems to be ‘chasse-roue’, but it looks like ‘borne’ can be used for this too? My French is close to not existing, so please forgive me, if that was a mistake. There were no pictures/drawings/whatever of the roof. Therefore, I used the one of the real building, which does not have a chimney. The color is supposed to look like the red roofs in paintings of the time. Thank you again @kasielartist for telling me how to blend this. I have not one artistic bone in my body and was completely lost. Thinking about it…the National Guard’s “Qui vive?” and Enjolras’s “Révolution française” is quite a Hänsel und Gretel exchange =D -- source link

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