La petite Judée (French). The prefecture of police; so called because the bureau is in the Rue de Jérusalem, and those taken there for offences look on the police as their betrayers.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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