- Just behind you.
- Where are we exactly?
- At Meursault-L’Hôpital.
- What’s the road?
- The D.23.
(…)
- Set up roadblocks on all the routes, including between Arney-le-Duc, Nuits-Saint-Georges, Beaune, Chalon-sur Saône, Le Creusot, Autun. I’m at the level crossing at Meursault-L’Hôpital, it cuts across the D.23, that’s right.
The escape of a prisoner from a train is followed by this close scrutiny of the surrounding area on a road map. A sense of identifiable location is very strong, especially with all those names of classic Burgundies.