Le Ventre de Paris.
HAUSSMANN (BOULEVARD) runs from east to west a short distance behind the
Opera House. Its eastern end connects with the Boulevard des Italiens.
Nana.
HAVRE (LE), an important seaport, which forms the terminus of the
Western Railway of France, the line upon which Jacques Lantier was
employed as an engine-driver. The Roubauds lived at Le Havre, and many
of the principal scenes in La Bete Humaine were enacted there. La Bete
Humaine.
LAZARE (RUE SAINT-), is in the neighbourhood of the railway station of
the same name. In it was situated the Orviedo mansion, in which Aristide
Saccard started the Universal Bank. L'Argent.
LILLE, an important manufacturing town in the north of France, near
the Belgian frontier. Etienne Lantier was at one time employed in the
railway workshop there. Germinal.
MALAUNAY, a station on the Western Railway of France, six miles from
Rouen, and about midway between that town and Barentin. It is referred
to in La Bete Humaine.
MARBEUF (RUE), a street which connects the Avenue des Champs Elysees and
the Avenue de l'Alma. Eugene Rougon lived there.
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