“Vengeance! Vengeance! I will yet be avenged! In the meantime, let me seek an hour’s repose!”
The Catacombs of Paris (1840) | George W. M. Reynolds
The Pont-Neuf: or, Mr Pickwick Attends an Execution | G.W.M. Reynolds
In 1838 Charles Dickens’s character Mr Pickwick embarked on further adventures into France, and these were published in The Monthly Magazine by a man calling himself “Parisianus.” In this story Pickwick stops to talk to a French gendarme and learns the fate of a parricide.