Chapter

 1 1   | position where he could study French administration and~observe
 2 1   |        Thus the~mediocrity of French administration has slowly
 3 3   |   swear, to speak her kind of French, to wear boots instead of
 4 5   |        en nauf (that's an old~French word for skiff, vessel,
 5 6   |    less useful than the truly French affability~of his manners)
 6 7   |    may perhaps denote a truly~French patriotism, which seeks
 7 7   |       lasted longer than most French~fashions. The actual economy
 8 7   |       sign.~ ~"You understand French very well," remarked Gigonnet,
 9 8   |   people in~the world but the French people who have ideas. Can
10 8   |    Yes, sir! whether English, French, German or Italian,--I let~
11 8   |    the interests of our noble French language~and of the Academy--"~ ~
12 8   | fixity of Bixiou's eye]. "The French~language! the Academy!"~ ~
13 8   |     progress. But, after all, French administration is~amazingly
14 8   |    how and why it is that the~French system of administration,
15 Note|       substituted for some in French. [Tr.]~ ~ ~ ~