At Paris Madame Raquin had found one of her old friends, the commissary of police Michaud, who had held a post at Vernon for twenty years, lodging in the same house as the mercer.
Mme Raquin retrouva à Paris un de ses vieux amis, le commissaire de police Michaud, qui avait exercé à Vernon pendant vingt ans, logé dans la même maison que la mercière.