# The Street of Our Lady of the Fields explained — The King in Yellow

> Chapter companion for The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers.

## What happens

The chapter opens with a reflective epigraph about past sorrows being counted as happy days, setting a melancholic tone for a story set in a Parisian street.

## Key lines

> Et tout les jours passés dans la tristesse Nous sont comptés comme des jours heureux!

All the days spent in sadness are counted as happy days.

_The epigraph suggests a bittersweet reflection on past sorrows._

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