Chapter

  1 1|           enter as supernumerary a~government office, where an unknown
  2 1|           than his~situation under government, was proposed to Celestine
  3 1|        never be~anything under the government of the Bourbons, etc. Forced
  4 1|          money, or agriculture, or government,~and nothing else. Besides
  5 1|           for the Civil Service of government. Knowing~the people with
  6 1|      witnessed in the lives of the government clerks, endeavored to~ascertain
  7 1|            the subsidiaries of the government; their~superiors are blown
  8 1|           under the constitutional~government, which was, inevitably,
  9 1|           Under the constitutional government, the~ministers of the various
 10 1|            ever brought before the government that a minister did~not
 11 1|            want of thirty~thousand government clerks! In fastening upon
 12 1|           persons~were employed by government the stronger the government
 13 1|        government the stronger the government would be. And~yet the contrary
 14 1|            Restoration. To plant~a government in the hearts of a nation
 15 1|          securing~his pension, the government official thought everything
 16 1|            sought positions in the~government bureaus for their ruined
 17 1|          one comes or stays in the~government offices but idlers, incapables,
 18 1|         the son of a porter~into a government office to decide the fate
 19 1|       secret evils~of the national government; lowered the courage of
 20 1|         all England; another, in a government office, may~communicate
 21 1|       Rabourdin's plan divided the government into three ministries, or~
 22 1|         finance than a question~of government. The State should possess
 23 1|           the~manufactories of the government, they are just as unreasonable
 24 1|             no man employed by the government failed to obtain great consideration~
 25 1|          He had not considered the government as permanently secure~until
 26 1|            to the stability~of the government than to propose and carry
 27 2|          the city of Paris; he was government commissioner to a secret~
 28 2|         for the last few years the government had been so~thoroughly held
 29 2|           aim seemed to be to make government of any kind impossible~in
 30 2|            only in the families of~government officials where for three
 31 2|           did not tremble when the government~changed hands.~ ~At the
 32 3|     twenty-nine years of~toil in a government office, the property of "
 33 3|         Saillard's salary from the government had always been four~thousand
 34 3|         Madame Saillard obtained a government~office for the sale of stamped
 35 3|             because on that day no government business~went on.~ ~This
 36 3|     transcendent~beings; they were government officers; they had risen
 37 3|     influence to get places in the government service? I am glad I am
 38 3|         interrupted Baudoyer, "the government is the government;~never
 39 3|              the government is the government;~never attack it in this
 40 3|            twenty-~five years in a government office behind an iron railing
 41 3|          what a supernumerary in a government office in Paris~means.~ ~
 42 3|          called the high comedy of government; he is spared all~the horrors
 43 3|           Everything is known in a government~office. The incapable man
 44 3|     fourths of his class leave the~government employ without ever obtaining
 45 3|     position of~supernumerary in a government office is precisely what
 46 3|          you like, the disease--of government official life. From this~
 47 3|          an infamous device of the government to obtain labor gratis,~
 48 3| enterprises of each outside of his government employment.~ ~All government
 49 3|       government employment.~ ~All government clerks in Paris who are
 50 3|   Duvicquet, in their day,~were in government employ. Monsieur Scribe'
 51 3|       health of the applicants for government service,--three~indispensable
 52 4|        LENGTH PORTRAITS OF CERTAIN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS~If it were possible
 53 4|        burrowed and~swarmed in the government offices where the principal
 54 4|          In Paris nearly all these government bureaus resemble each other.
 55 4|           manners and customs of a government office; the chief~features
 56 4|       young man is not precisely a government official; he is~a political
 57 4|           that under a monarchical government his~services would be well
 58 4|      product of the representative government hot-house; he~is propagated
 59 4|     whereas under a~constitutional government you may be flattered, served,
 60 4|         saw completely~through the government officials, collectively
 61 4|           was well aware~that in a government office incapacity was no
 62 4|         francs of his salary under government, twelve hundred francs~pension
 63 4|          really ought to be."~ ~"A government clerk," replied Antoine,
 64 4|             is a man who sits in~a government office and writes. But there,
 65 4|            you never say harm of a~government clerk, you fellows. Gabriel,
 66 4|            faithfully to serve the~government, believed he was useful
 67 4|          when a~man belongs to the government he is no longer master of
 68 4|          put his eldest son into a~government office and his second into
 69 4|         you have the honor to be a government~clerk"; though he suspected
 70 4|     English,"--a name given by the~government clerks to their creditors. "
 71 4|         means the day on~which the government offices are thrown open
 72 4|       latter~away, saying that the government bureaus were open for public~
 73 4|           him his~employment under government in 1819. On good terms with
 74 4|        personal importance which a government official may acquire outside
 75 4|           may acquire outside of~a government office. Short in stature
 76 4|   outsiders to say, "That man is a government clerk!" He wore~elegant
 77 4|            s humble position~under government was forgotten there. Flavie'
 78 4|            a busy one. Colleville, government~official in the mornings
 79 4|       counting his~salary from the government. In a few months his term
 80 4|          their apprenticeship in a government office. Their mother~made
 81 4|        predicting a~fatal end to a government which persisted in upholding
 82 4|            forced him to~serve the government, and he made various efforts
 83 4|          door of~Nature and of the government both. Nature, to a civil-service
 84 4|           Under the present system government loses~fully four hours out
 85 4|       smaller or larger scale. The government clerks, forced to be~together
 86 4|    secondary~bonds of affection. A government office is, in short, a microcosm
 87 5|            more sagacity than in a government bureau.~Self-interest stifles
 88 5|          does in children, but the~government service adds hypocrisy to
 89 5|          he is nothing, not even a government clerk. I asked all particulars
 90 5|          refer to him as such in a~government office."~ ~Bixiou [laughing]. "
 91 5|            like slaves because the government gives us four francs and~
 92 5|            easy to say that; but a~government place is a government place,
 93 5|            a~government place is a government place, and that plucky Colleville,~
 94 5|            were not enough for the government work; the maimed and the
 95 5|         appointed to a place under government than the~Emperor Napoleon
 96 5|           a thousand to one that a government clerk who~has no influence
 97 5|            it has a constitutional government."~ ~Colleville. "Gentlemen,
 98 5|          interested in nobody; the government clerk~lives between two
 99 5|    Baudoyer is~listening.] "If the government would frankly state its
100 5|           Monsieur des Lupeaulx. A government degrades itself by openly~
101 5|            a thousand questions of government, his mind,~like that of
102 5|    explained ingenious theories of~government, applicable or inapplicable
103 6|      officials and the clerks~in a government office is so regulated that,
104 6|           show there are hearts in~government offices; and you ought to
105 6|           to do with the wife of a government~official?"~ ~Dutocq. "They
106 7|       increase~the offices and all government employments, instead of
107 7|     enlisted in the support of the government."~ ~Des Lupeaulx seemed
108 7|           those who~administer its government? We are far indeed from
109 8|       dolce far niente habits of a government~office. Nevertheless, the
110 8|      Fleury [getting hot]. "If the government offices are public places,~
111 8|            party of~representative government to be recruited from men
112 8|         pretends to reorganize the government from~beginning to end,--
113 8|        that means I may render the government~such signal service that
114 8|            who knew nothing of the government~proceedings. Du Bruel did
115 8|        Almoner and the dangers the government ran in relying upon the~
116 8|        will want to legislate. The~government will try to administrate
117 8|            that I am to leave~this government office without ever understanding
118 8|           analyze precisely what a government clerk is? Do you know what
119 8|       Poiret. "He is a man paid by government to do work."~ ~Bixiou. "
120 8|            Oh! then a soldier is a government clerk?"~ ~Poiret [puzzled]. "
121 8|              But he is paid by the government to do work, to mount guard~
122 8|           wide open]. "Monsieur, a government clerk is,~logically speaking,
123 8|           button.] "Where does the government clerk proper end?~That's
124 8|           see it is clear that the~government clerk comes to a final end
125 8|        longer any uncertainty; the~government clerk who has hitherto seemed
126 8|            image of constitutional government"~[all the clerks look at
127 8|        longer; I shall deprive the government of my~co-operation." [Departs
128 8|            continuity' between the government and the~administration."~ ~
129 8|          them a right to judge the government and to talk and vote~against
130 8|           There are forty thousand government clerks in France. The~average
131 8|        Russia and China~(where all government officials steal), also that
132 8|           company."~ ~"Hey! what a government, my dear fellow!"~ ~"Yes,