At dawn, and from hour to hour throughout the day, I went to see him where he sprawled on a paillasse on the floor, like some red-haired stricken beast, with out-stretched limbs, convulsed by spasms which displaced the dirty blanket that covered him.
"The New Book Of Martyrs"
Georges Duhamel
It was composed of a simple quilted paillasse extended on a plank; no sheets, but a prison coverlet of grey wool, a sack of straw instead of pillows.
"En Route"
J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
A type long known to the Italians, and familiar to the French as paillasse.
"A Second Book of Operas"
Henry Edward Krehbiel