Sparada, l’heur du crime

Cops and Robbers

Gabriel Chevallier wrote :
How did he capture so well, the Herculean inmates, these gentlemen with bowler hats and tattoos, scar faced and bandaged with gauge? The gaping, gawking, blushing rustics in their Sunday Best? These brawling, toothless thugs emerging from the local pub.

(Dubout, Éditions du Livre, Monte-Carlo, 1944).