Brewer's: Dufarge

Jacques and Madame Dufarge are the presiding genii of the Faubourg St. Antoine, and chief instigators of many of the crimes committed by the Red Republicans in Dickens's Tale of Two Cities.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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