régime tombé, the late [Ollivier] cabinet

3. contrepied. Prendre le contrepied de = totake the opposite stand to,

4. la gauche, the left-hand side (from the chairman's standpoint) of the Chambre des Députes, i. e. the republican or opposition side. The Chambre des Députés is the lower House of the French Parliament. Cf. the English House of Commons, and the American House of Représentatives.

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Page 11. — kiosques, the hexagonal newspaper stalls on the Paris boulevards.

Page 12. — I. pièces are the parts of a whole specially put together ; morceaux = fragments. Hère bits and patches.

2. mobiles, so called because belonging to the garde mobile or m<rvable guardy as against the garde nationale^ whose duty was to défend the place to which it belonged. See page 2, note 3.