Crossword-Solution: JACQUET 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 25

Moreover, as was shown by what followed, she was oddly exercising the faculty of invention upon the speciality of the clever Jacquet Droz, the designer of automatic substitutes for human limbs.

But the Maid, with us who followed her, was led right through the great street of Orleans, from the Burgundy gate to the gate Regnart, whereby the fighting was ever most fell, and there we lodged in the house of the Treasurer of the Duke of Orleans, Jacquet Boucher.

Jacquet, a nobly upright man, a toiler, austere in his morals, had slowly made his way in that particular ministry which develops both honesty and knavery at the same time.

Jacquet in that office was like a glow-worm, casting his light upon those secret correspondences, deciphering and classifying despatches.

Jacquet gave him a chair, laid aside methodically his green silk eye-shade, rubbed his hands, picked up his snuff-box, rose, stretched himself till his shoulder-blades cracked, swelled out his chest, and said:-- “What brings you here, Monsieur Desmarets? What do you want with me?” “Jacquet, I want you to decipher a secret,--a secret of life and death.” “It doesn’t concern politics?” “If it did, I shouldn’t come to you for information,” said Jules.