un drôle. A scoundrel

1. 4, n'a pris qu'une couleur. Piis had served the Bourbons, the Republic, and the Empire in turn, and was once more a partisan of the monarchy.

1. 1 1. nouvelliste, 'retailer of scandalous gossip.' The name was given to the writers and circulators of the clandestine Nouvelle* à la main which from the sixteenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth constantly eluded the attempts of the police to suppress them. The term is used in opposition to 'journaliste' in 1. 13.