Crossword-Solution: MAGOTS 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

But this humble retreat was instantly surrounded by the enemy: they tried to force the door, they were provoked by a discharge of arrows from the roof, till at length, impatient of delay, they set fire to a pile of dry magots, and consumed the cottage with the Roman emperor and his train.

Dans l’un, où le sentier se rétrécissait tout à coup entre des murs sombres, entre de hauts toits en chaume pointus comme des huttes celtiques, une enseigne de cabaret la fit sourire: “Au cidre chinois”, et on avait peint deux magots en robe verte et rose, avec des queues, buvant du cidre.

The Magots, however, had no buttons upon their coachman's coat; one reason of which omission was, perhaps, that they had no coachman.

Their friends did, of course; but there were a great many people from the country who gazed at it, in passing, with the same emotion with which they would have contemplated a private carriage; which was highly gratifying to the feelings of the Magots.

And, indeed, the next day, at the very moment that we have seen, at the beginning of this chapter, Mademoiselle Mimi wakes up very much astonished at Rodolphe's absence, the poet and his two friends were ascending the stairs, accompanied by a shopman from the Deux Magots and a milliner with specimens.