The girl was brought up among exiles and political criminals in the Purlieu of Montmartre.
"Carnac's Folly, Volume 2."
Gilbert Parker
They evidently deemed that a legal Purlieu was a better place for 'pickings.
"Prose Fancies"
Richard Le Gallienne
The friend who had invited me to this spectacle felt its inadequacy so keenly, in spite of my protests, that he questioned the policemen for some very squalid or depraved Purlieu that he might show me, for we were in the very heart of Whitechapel, but failing that, because the region had been so very much reformed and cleaned up since the dreadful murders there, he had no recourse but to take me on top of a tram-car and show me how very thoroughly it had been reformed and cleaned up.
"London Films"
W.D. Howells