The unconscious Marius is carried away from one by Jean Valjean in Les Miserables.
A description of this type of location at Saint-Antoine prompts the narrator of a novel to ask "Who built all that?" and "Who destroyed all that?" In a chapter of Sentimental Education named after it, Frederic Moreau travels first to this type of location before meeting Hussonnet during the ransacking of the Tuileries Palace. At this type of location, a woman disguised as a soldier uses her hand to cover the (*) barrel of a gun, allowing Eponine to save the life of the man she loves. Gavroche unmasks a spy at this type of location, though that policeman's life is spared when a reformed convict fires a gun into the air rather than carry out his execution. The unconscious Marius is carried away from one by Jean Valjean in Les Miserables. For 10 points, name these defensive structures that blocked streets in revolutionary Paris.
A description of this type of location at Saint-Antoine prompts the narrator of a novel to ask "Who built all that?"
barricades [prompt on answers such as "barriers" or "walls"; prompt on "streets" before read]