Queue−en−Brie was a very insipid place to stay at then, a village of farriers, and cow−girls with chapped hands, a long line of poor dwellings and thatched cottages, which borders the grand road on both sides for half a league; a tail (queue), in short, as its name imports.
C’était d’ailleurs un séjour fort insipide que Queue-en-Brie, un village de maréchaux ferrants et de vachères aux mains gercées, un long cordon de masures et de chaumières qui ourle la grande route des deux côtés pendant une demi-lieue ; une queue enfin.