My captor was one of the king's lackeys, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

My captor was one of the king's lackeys, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Joseph Hippolyte Jules Caqué, Honoré de Balzac

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