The street is almost parallel to the Avenue de l'Opera. Au
Bonheur des Dames.
MOINES (RUE DES) was situated at Batignolles, in the extreme north-west
of Paris. Madame Lerat lived there. L'Assommoir.
MONCEAU (RUE), a street which runs northward from Rue du Faubourg St.
Honore. It is a short distance to the north-east of the Arc de Triomphe,
and in it was situated Aristide Saccard's magnificent mansion. La Curee.
MONTSOU, a mining village in the north of France, about ten kilometres
from Marchiennes (q.v.). It is the scene of many of the chief events in
Germinal.
ORLEANS, an important town situated on the Loire, seventy-five miles
south of Paris. It is referred to in La Terre and Nana.
PARADOU, the name of a neglected demesne near Plassans (q.v.). It was
the scene of a large part of La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret.
PLASSANS, the name under which Zola disguised his native town of Aix. It
is a place of about 30,000 inhabitants, and is situated eighteen miles
north of Marseilles. Aix was at one time the capital of Provence, is the
seat of an archbishop, and contains a university and an Ecole des Art et
Metiers.
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