The mairie in each arrondissement has become no less than a community center.

The XIV arrondissement in Paris is but the pattern for many.

And so many other arrondissements have followed suit that Paris may be regarded as making a great experiment in the municipal feeding of her people.

If a word of praise is extended to the maire of the XIV arrondissement for his very splendid work, an example to all France, he quickly urges, "Ah, but Mme.

This manifestation was to take place in the Twelfth Arrondissement of Paris.

Driven from the doors of the Assembly, the Deputies retired to the mairie of the Tenth Arrondissement.

Who then were those Representatives assembled at the mairie of the Tenth Arrondissement, and what did they do there?

The agitation increasing in the centre reached three Arrondissements, the 6th, 7th, and the 12th.

There, stretched out amongst the corpses, in the middle of the barricade, with his hair in the gutter, was seen the all-but namesake of Charpentier, Carpentier, the delegate of the committee of the Tenth Arrondissement, who had been killed, and had fallen backwards, with two balls in his breast.

At the same time as this placard appeared the protest of M. Daru, as follows: "I approve of the proceedings of the National Assembly at the Mairie of the Tenth Arrondissement on the 2d of December, 1851, in which I was hindered from participating by force.

The electors will vote with lists, and in their own arrondissements.

The municipalities of the twenty arrondissements are entrusted with the proper execution of the present decree.

Oh! when will all this dreadful misunderstanding cease? FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 44: The biography of this general of the Commune is very imperfect, down to the time when he was elected for the 1st Arrondissement of Paris, and was thereupon appointed Minister of War, or in Communal phraseology, Delegate at the War Department.

"The sub-committee of the eleventh arrondissement ..."

"In consequence, they will be burnt in front of the mairie, for the purification of the arrondissement and the preservation of the new liberties."

He was one of those who took refuge at the Mairie of the Eleventh Arrondissement, and who, knowing well that the struggle was really over, said to the silly heroes who protected them, "All is well.

The Porte de la Muette and the Porte Dauphine have been surrendered by the 13th and the 113th battalions of the first arrondissement.

"Citizen Billioray, with one hundred men, is charged with the 9th, 10th, and 20th Arrondissements.

At the same time, the Central Committee caused the rappel to be beaten, and towards seven o'clock in the morning ten or twelve thousand National Guards from the arrondissements of Batignolles, Montmartre, La Villette, and Belleville poured into the streets.

At the mayoralty of the 7th Arrondissement this woman, in the absence of the mayor, took the direction and management of affairs.

At the mayoralty of the 7th Arrondissement there were deposits for public instruction to the amount of 8000 francs, which had dwindled down to 2900 francs.

Batard, in his "Notices sur les Végétaux" mentions one in the commune of Pommeraie in the arrondissement de Beaupréau, whose age was supposed to be nearly two thousand years.

Calvados arrondissement, 31½ O.N.O. de Bayeaux," &c. Norman de Beauchamp: three Beauchamps are mentioned; that 51.

DEPARTMENT, a territorial division in France instituted in 1790, under which the old division into provinces was broken up; each department, of which there are now 87, is broken up into arrondissements.

There are now in France 87 departments, divided into 362 arrondissements and some 36,000 communes.]