text:  This was a common amusement of the idlers of this quarter: but the passions of the mob if they needed stronger excitement had to find a scene of horrid gratification on the Place de Greve opposite the Hotel de Ville where at rare intervals a heretic would be burnt a murderer hung or a traitor quartered; but this spot of bloody memory lies far from the Rue St Denis and we are not now called upon to reveal its terrible recollections: let us turn back to our good old street