Every eye was turned in that direction; a profound upheaving agitated the crowd; they rushed forward, they pressed against the railings of the high pavements which border the cutting between the theatres of the Porte St. Martin and the Ambigu.

Saint-Arnaud was a general who had been a supernumerary at the Ambigu Theatre.

The piece was rejected at the Gymnase, but accepted at the Ambigu; and my share of the profits came to six francs a night.

" The tenor, from the Comic Opera, went to the Ambigu Theatre, and thence to the Variétés, where an attempt was being made to introduce lyric works.