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PREFACE

I IN THE STREET

II IN A CELLAR

III IN A MARKET-PLACE

IV BOURGEOISIE

1. M. Durand at Marie-le-Bois

2. Pension de Famille. The Beautiful Mademoiselle Marie, who loved Gambetta

3. Pension de Famille. French and Piano Lessons. Les Saintes Filles, Mesdemoiselles Périvier

4. The Affair of the Collars

V ON STRIKE

1. When it was Dark in Paris

2. Birds of the State at the Post Office

3. After the Storm at Villeneuve-St-Georges

VI COTTIN & COMPANY

VII THE LATIN QUARTER

1. Mère Casimir

2. Gloom on the Rive Gauche

3. The Daughter of the Students

VIII MONSIEUR LE ROUÉ

IX FRENCH LIFE AND THE FRENCH STAGE

1. M. Paul Bourget, the Reactionary Playwright, and M. Pataud, who put out the Lights of Paris

2. M. Alfred Capus. “Nôtre Jeunesse” at the Française

3. M. Brieux, “La Déserteuse,” at the Odéon

4. Paris, M. Edmond Rostand, and “Chantecler”

X AFTER CHANTECLER

XI AU COURS D’ASSISES. PARIS AND MADAME STEINHEIL

XII THE LATE JULES GUÉRIN AND THE DEFENCE OF FORT CHABROL

XIII DEATH OF HENRI ROCHEFORT

XIV ROYAL VISITS TO PARIS

XV AT THE ÉLYSÉE. MESSIEURS LES PRÉSIDENTS

1. M. Loubet and Paul Déroulède

2. M. Armand Fallières. Morocco and the Floods

3. M. Raymond Poincaré and the Record of M. Lépine

XVI MADAME LA PRÉSIDENTE, M. GEORGES CLEMENCEAU AND THE UNFORTUNATE M. PAMS