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Rainbow-hued affiches have done their best; placard-bearers, by scores, have paraded, and are parading, the streets; advertisements have blazoned the scheme day after day, and week after week; the gratis-tickets have been duly 'planted; puffs, oblique and implied, have hinted at the coming attraction in every Sunday paper; and programmes are fluttering in every get-at-able shop-front.
The sale of the others is comparatively trifling, with the exception of the Petites Affiches, of which the number daily sold exceeds 30,000.
There was no news of what was really happening in the country, no newspapers ever got through, and we had nothing to go upon but the German affiches proclaiming victories everywhere, the German trains garlanded with laurels and faded roses, marked "Destination Paris," and the large batches of French prisoners that were constantly marched through the town.
Perhaps you had better advertise in 'Les Petites Affiches. You ask too much for the habitues of this neighbourhood, one hundred francs a month." "But the lodging is furnished, and well too, and has four rooms. One hundred francs are not much." A thought flashed upon Graham. "Pardon, Monsieur," he said, "have you an appartement de garcon to let furnished?" "Yes, Monsieur, a charming one.
For my own part, I prefer the quiet of a private lodging to the bustle of a public hotel, and, as I have before mentioned, my constant resource, on such occasions, has been the Petites Affiches. If you go to the office where this Daily Advertiser is published, and inspect the file, it is ten to one that you immediately find apartments to your wishes.
Not one of my nurses was working, though there were a great many wounded in Brussels, and we knew that they were short-handed. There was nothing to do but to walk about the streets and read the new affiches, or proclamations, which were put up almost every day, one side in French, the other side in German, so that all who listed might read. They were of two kinds.
Barrett, that he should induce either his State, or individuals, to send a sufficient number of boxes of the spermaceti candle to give one to every leading house in Paris; I mean to those who lead the ton: and at the same time to deposite a quantity for sale here, and advertise them in the petites affiches. I have written to Mr.
We learn, however, from the affiches that it is all in honour of 'Our Lady of Hope, that the externes from one school parade the streets to-day, wearing wreaths and carrying banners and crowns of flowers; that others bear aloft the 'cipher of Mary, the banner of the Immaculate Conception, baskets of roses, oriflammes, &c.; that twenty grown-up men parade the town with the 'banner of the Sacred Heart, and that a party of young ladies, in white dresses fringed with gold, brave the heat and the dust, and crowd to do honour to the 'Queen of Angels. A multitude with streamers and banners, a confusion of colour and gilding, passing to and from the churches all day; and at night, fire balloons, feu d'artifice, open theatres, and 'general joy.
Cloud Versailles ... anywhere you like. Most probably there's a fête going on somewhere, if we only knew where," "Can't we find out?" "Oh, yes we can drop into a Café and look at the Petites Affiches; only that entails an absinthe; or we can go into the nearest Omnibus Bureau and see the notices on the walls, which will be cheaper."
Perhaps you had better advertise in 'Les Petites Affiches. You ask too much for the habitues of this neighbourhood, one hundred francs a month." "But the lodging is furnished, and well too, and has four rooms. One hundred francs are not much." A thought flashed upon Graham. "Pardon, Monsieur," he said, "have you an appartement de garcon to let furnished?" "Yes, Monsieur, a charming one.
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