A narrow stone passage led to it-pitch-dark at all times, but dirty, and evil-smelling when the concierge-a free citizen of the new democracy-took a week's holiday from his work in order to spend whole afternoons either at the wineshop round the corner, or on the Place du carrousel to watch the guillotine getting rid of some twenty aristocrats an hour for the glorification of the will of the people.
"The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel"
Baroness Orczy
Roue de carrousel, she repeated.
"In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875."
L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone
As a means of pleasure, the merry-go-round, both horizontal with horses and vertical with swinging cradles, prevailed, and was none the worse for being called by the French name of carrousel, for our people aniglicize the word, and squeeze the last drop of Gallic wickedness from it by pronouncing it carousal.
"Short Stories and Essays From "Literature and Life""
William Dean Howells