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[4] All the water had to be exhausted, in the building of the Opera.

To give an idea of the amount of water that was pumped up, I can tell

the reader that it represented the area of the courtyard of the Louvre

and a height half as deep again as the towers of Notre Dame. And

nevertheless the engineers had to leave a lake.

[5] These two pairs of boots, which were placed, according to the

Persian's papers, just between the set piece and the scene from the ROI

DE LAHORE, on the spot where Joseph Buquet was found hanging, were

never discovered. They must have been taken by some stage-carpenter or

"door-shutter."