The King in Yellow · Chapter
The Street of Our Lady of the Fields explained
The chapter opens with a reflective epigraph about past sorrows being counted as happy days, setting a melancholic tone for a story set in a Parisian street.
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The chapter opens with a reflective epigraph about past sorrows being counted as happy days, setting a melancholic tone for a story set in a Parisian street.
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- Escalation
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“Et tout les jours passés dans la tristesse Nous sont comptés comme des jours heureux!”
All the days spent in sadness are counted as happy days.
The epigraph suggests a bittersweet reflection on past sorrows.
