text:  The _Rue de la Grande Truanderie_ which was above the Innocents must have been the rendez-vous of all the thieves and beggars of Paris if there be any thing in a name: the old chronicles of the city relate indeed that it took a long time to respectabilize its neighbourhood; and they add that the herds of rogues and impostors who once lived in it took refuge after their ejection in the famous _Cour des Miracles_ a little higher up the Rue St Denis