Résumé de A Tale of Two Cities, Chapter 22

Ce qui se passe

1. A week into Saint Antoine’s triumph, its hungry inhabitants show a new confidence in their power to kill.
2. Defarge reports that Foulon is alive and under arrest, and The Vengeance helps summon an armed crowd.
3. At the Hôtel de Ville, Madame Defarge encourages the crowd’s anger against Foulon, whose bonds carry grass.
4. The crowd drags Foulon outside, hangs him after two ropes break, and displays his head with grass in his mouth.
5. Toward evening, the people also kill Foulon’s son-in-law and parade his head and heart alongside Foulon’s head.
6. The inhabitants return to hungry children and scant meals, while Madame Defarge treats the uprising’s achievement as incomplete.

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Les points à retenir

Madame Defarge’s brief correction rejects her husband’s sense of arrival. Even after two killings, she does not regard their achievement as complete.

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