{"product_id":"2940015953091","title":"The History of a Crime: The Testimony of an Eye-Witness! A Politics Classic By Victor Hugo! AAA+++","description":"Excerpt:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE\u003cbr\u003eWhile all this was taking place on the left bank of the river, towards noon a man was noticed walking up and down the great Salles des Pas Perdus of the Palace of Justice. This man, carefully buttoned up in an overcoat, appeared to be attended at a distance by several possible supporters--for certain police enterprises employ assistants whose dubious appearance renders the passers-by uneasy, so much so that they wonder whether they are magistrates or thieves. The man in the buttoned-up overcoat loitered from door to door, from lobby to lobby, exchanging signs of intelligence with the myrmidons who followed him; then came back to the great Hall, stopping on the way the barristers, solicitors, ushers, clerks, and attendants, and repeating to all in a low voice, so as not to be heard by the passers-by, the same question. To this question some answered \"Yes,\" others replied \"No.\" And the man set to work again, prowling about the Palace of Justice with the appearance of a bloodhound seeking the trail.\u003cbr\u003eHe was a Commissary of the Arsenal Police.\u003cbr\u003eWhat was he looking for?\u003cbr\u003eThe High Court of Justice.\u003cbr\u003eWhat was the High Court of Justice doing?\u003cbr\u003eIt was hiding.\u003cbr\u003eWhy? To sit in Judgment?\u003cbr\u003eYes and no.\u003cbr\u003eThe Commissary of the Arsenal Police had that morning received from the Prefect Maupas the order to search everywhere for the place where the High Court of Justice might be sitting, if perchance it thought it its duty to meet. Confusing the High Court with the Council of State, the Commissary of Police had first gone to the Quai d'Orsay. Having found nothing, not even the Council of State, he had come away empty-handed, at all events had turned his steps towards the Palace of Justice, thinking that as he had to search for justice he would perhaps find it there.\u003cbr\u003eNot finding it, he went away.\u003cbr\u003eThe High Court, however, had nevertheless met together.\u003cbr\u003eWhere, and how? We shall see.","brand":"BDP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47074434810096,"sku":"2940015953091","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940015953091_p0.jpg?v=1763635450","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015953091","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}