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The Way of the Cross
Around them is a camp with carts—the aristocrats of misfortune.
—Fortunate ones:
Who have succeeded in obtaining for themselves places at the actual doors of the relief points.
It is colder than in the forest, but more satisfying.
On the great highway
—A promenade—as one of the numerous gendarmes keeping order put it.
Not only is it difficult to drive through, but difficult to walk through.
The people flock first one way, then the other, with downcast visage, to the forest, from the forest, from one side of the highway to the other side of the highway.
At the bonfires they warm their red and chilblained hands.
Horses pass through the crowd.
With triangular brandings on their hind legs.
