Chapter

 1     1|         hesitatingly asked, "Well, monsieur, will it wear well?" The
 2     1|       hesitating manner: "Dear me, monsieur, you understand that for
 3     1|     guarantee it?" "Oh! certainly, monsieur, it is quite goad! But,
 4     1|         him:~ ~"Do I like fishing, monsieur? Why, it's the delight of
 5     2|         throw a hook into a river, Monsieur Patissot bought, for eighty
 6     2|   occupation he called to Boivin; "Monsieur Boivin, would you be so
 7     2|           Please don't disturb me, Monsieur Patissot; we are not here
 8     2|        only to do as others do."~ ~Monsieur Patissot, on the other hand,
 9     2|     expensive; you'll see. Anyhow, Monsieur Patissot, you needn't expect
10     3|                  TWO CELEBRITIES~ ~Monsieur Patissot had promised his
11     3|           Patissot asked him: "Has Monsieur Meissonier owned this place
12     3|             The man answered: "Oh, monsieur! that needs explaining.
13     3|           bold, he stammered: "Oh, monsieur! If you knew how I appreciate
14     4|       going to a celebration; what Monsieur Patissot, Parisian bourgeois,
15     4|        redolent of garlic, give to Monsieur Patissot all the joy which
16     4|         houses and streets.~ ~Then Monsieur Patissot tried to imagine
17     4|          floor, facing the street. Monsieur Patissot supposed that by
18     4|            and nightly meditation, Monsieur Patissot could think of
19     4|         recognize this government, monsieur!"~ ~But Patissot, as government
20     4|      answered in a stern voice:~ ~"Monsieur, the Republic is the government."~ ~
21     4|           don't care! What I want, monsieur, is to know my government.
22     4|     Charles X. and adhered to him, monsieur; I saw Louis-Philippe and
23     4| Louis-Philippe and adhered to him, monsieur; I saw Napoleon and adhered
24     4|         answered:~ ~"The Republic, monsieur, is represented by its president!"~ ~
25     4|          grew angry.~ ~"Excuse me, monsieur, he cannot be seen. I have
26     4|         more than a hundred times, monsieur. I have posted myself near
27     4|          weary. I did not even see Monsieur Gambetta, and I do not know
28     4|          excited:~ ~"A government, monsieur, is made to be seen; that'
29     4|      manage the celebration? Well, monsieur, I would have a procession
30     4|        whole Column of July. Then, monsieur, the troop would attack.
31     4|              That is a great idea, monsieur, which does you honor. It
32     4|            his horses to a gallop. Monsieur Patissot was bawling at
33     4|          At last they stopped, and Monsieur Patissot, judging his neighbor
34     5|    satisfied by lyric invocations. Monsieur Patissot, like all others,
35     5|          head occupied the centre. Monsieur Patissot, a little disappointed,
36     6|           the national celebration Monsieur Antoine Perdrix, chief of
37     6|          Antoine Perdrix, chief of Monsieur Patissot's department, was
38     6|          constant preoccupation of Monsieur Perdrix, who would sometimes
39     6|           a train in the distance, Monsieur Perdrix would announce to
40     6|        force was there. First came Monsieur Capitaine, the assistant
41     6|    Capitaine, the assistant chief; Monsieur Patissot, chief clerk; then
42     6|           when they had to; lastly Monsieur Rade, known throughout the
43     6|             and the copying clerk, Monsieur Boivin.~ ~Monsieur Rade
44     6|          clerk, Monsieur Boivin.~ ~Monsieur Rade passed for a character.
45     6|        they had seated themselves, Monsieur Perdrix thanked his "collaborators"
46     6|           from among the humble.~ ~Monsieur Capitaine, the assistant
47     6|            a discussion arose, and Monsieur Rade let himself loose and
48     6|      refinement of her sentiments. Monsieur Rade began to protest, energetically
49     6|            is an idiot," exclaimed Monsieur de Sombreterre.~ ~Monsieur
50     6|         Monsieur de Sombreterre.~ ~Monsieur Rade smilingly continued:~ ~"
51     6|            and have no talent.'"~ ~Monsieur de Sombreterre disdainfully
52     6|          the other, that's all."~ ~Monsieur Rade, still smiling, went
53     6|           works or cook-books.'"~ ~Monsieur Rade continued:~ ~"You see,
54     6|       apart, in the background."~ ~Monsieur Patissot was growing angry,
55     6|         And how about Madame Sand, monsieur?"~ ~"She is the one exception,
56     6|          She is the one exception, monsieur, the one exception. I will
57     6|           a social factor.'"~ ~All Monsieur Patissot's chivalric instincts
58     6|           You are not a Frenchman, monsieur. French gallantry is a form
59     6|           a form of patriotism."~ ~Monsieur Rade retorted:~ ~"I have
60     6|            very little patriotism, monsieur, as little as I can get
61     6|                There are, however, monsieur, principles which all good
62     6|    Patissot pronounced: "Morality, monsieur."~ ~M. Rade was beaming;
63     6|           me greatly to know them, monsieur."~ ~M. Rade did not need
64     6|          coaxed.~ ~"Here they are, monsieur:~ ~"First principle -- Government
65     6|           Rade, he cried:~ ~"Then, monsieur, you believe in nothing?"~ ~
66     6|         You're absolutely correct, monsieur."~ ~The anger felt by all