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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Distinguished Provincial at Paris by Honore de Balzac: quarters, made good the promise of "bread at discretion." Such was the
plenty of the establishment, that Moliere would have celebrated it if
it had been in existence in his day, so comically appropriate is the
name.
Flicoteaux still subsists; so long as students are minded to live,
Flicoteaux will make a living. You feed there, neither more nor less;
and you feed as you work, with morose or cheerful industry, according
to the circumstances and the temperament.
At that time his well-known establishment consisted of two dining-
halls, at right angles to each other; long, narrow, low-ceiled rooms,
looking respectively on the Rue Neuve-de-Richelieu and the Place de la
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