The Margin

Place

Paris

Also known as Hôtel de Ville of Paris.

Paris is the foreign city from which Miusov returns when he intervenes in Dmitri's neglected childhood. It is also the city of his long residence abroad and of the revolutionary memories he likes to display as proof of European culture.

II-V. So Be It! So Be It!

Miusov cites Paris as the place where he heard a political-police anecdote during the debate in Father Zossima's Cell.

V-V. The Grand Inquisitor

Ivan invokes the Hôtel de Ville of Paris while describing religious performance and spectacle in his account of medieval faith.

X-VII. Ilusha

The doctor imagines sending Ilusha's mother to Paris for treatment by a specialist, a worldly solution far beyond the family's reach.

XII-I. The Fatal Day

Miusov is absent in Paris when Dmitri's trial draws the town's attention.

This entry is sealed. You have not yet read far enough to open it.

The Margin

Suggest a correction

Paris