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The Street of the First Shell

By: Robert W. Chambers
Narrated by: Mark Turetsky
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Summary

From The King in Yellow, by Robert W. Chambers, and set in the Latin Quarter of Paris, artist Jack Trent lives with his model Sylvia. The story takes place during the Seige of Paris in 1870, ending with the Germans shelling the Latin Quarter, and Trent arriving home to see a child scrawling "Here fell the first shell".

Public Domain (P)2014 Mark Turetsky
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