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Prosecutor’s offices

parquet

Here parquet means the public prosecution service or its offices, not wooden flooring.

From the book

The Gods Are Athirst

Anatole France · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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Meaning

Lemma.

Here parquet means the public prosecution service or its offices, not wooden flooring. Gamelin leaves it after his interview with Fouquier and enters the palace gallery. The spatial movement fixes the institutional sense, rendered as “the prosecutor’s offices” in the English.

Places to read

  1. Chapter IX, paragraph 7FrenchEn quittant le parquet: Leaving the prosecutor’s offices. This follows the meeting with the public prosecutor.