Translations for desk in French

Here are paragraphs from public domain books translated:

"Pardon me! He had been out. That morning, on which you found him reading, he had just come from school, and perhaps the commissary of police, instead of wasting his time on the innocent mother, would have been better employed in searching the child's desk amongst his school-books."	— Pardon ! il sortait, lui. Le matin même où vous l’avez surpris devant sa table de travail, il venait de l’école, et peut-être la justice, au lieu d’épuiser ses ressources contre la mère innocente, aurait-elle été mieux inspirée en perquisitionnant là-bas, dans le pupitre de l’enfant, parmi ses livres de classe.
The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman Burglar, by Maurice Leblanc	Arsène Lupin gentleman-cambrioleur, de Maurice Leblanc