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

And the mairie holds a spirit of experiment.

In the "XIV" fifteen hundred persons eat a meal or two at the mairie each day.

The Mairie, and the school, were full of wounded, of whom there were probably some hundreds in the village.

He is struck, hustled, spat upon, and dragged off to the Mairie.

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?

To the Mairie of the Tenth Arrondissement." "What do you intend to do there?" "To decree the deposition of Louis Bonaparte.

They agreed in a low voice upon a rendezvous at No. 19, Rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin, in case they should be expelled from the Mairie.

General Foreythe same who had refused a battalion to the President of the Constituent Assembly, Marrast, who had promoted him from a colonel to a generalGeneral Forey, in the centre of the courtyard of the Mairie, his face inflamed, half drunk, coming out, they said, from breakfast at the Elysée, superintended the outrage.

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.

At 9.40 we entered Louvie Juzon (16 miles), with its old church and curious belfry-tower, and its "mairie" turned into a schoolfor the nonce at least; and passing the latter, we crossed the fine bridge over the Gave d'Ossau, on the other side of which the Oloron road leads off through Izeste to the right, and the courtyard of the Hôtel des Pyrénées bids us enter and rest.

For all excursions there is a recognised tariff, which may be seen at the Mairie; and an excellent local guide-book and map is published for 2 frs.

It was at this moment that the deputies from the Committee presented themselves at the Mairie of the first arrondissement, preceded by three pieces of artillery, a very warlike accompaniment to a deputation.

"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.

Saturday, 29th March: Occupation of the Mairie of the 1st Arrondissement by the Federals.

The next morning I was early astir, searched in the mairie for a map of the town, where I also found a Bottin: I could thus locate the Telephone Exchange.

I returned then to the mairie, where for the first time I saw her, and she was heavy of heart that day: but when I broke the news that she would be able to speak to me, every day, all day, first she was all incredulous astonishment, then, for a moment, her eyes turned white to Heaven, then she was skipping like a kid.

Like most of the village schoolmasters in France, this gentleman was also secretary at the mairie, a function highly stimulating to the sense of self-importance, and no wonder, considering that the person who fills it frequently supplies the mayor, who may scarcely be able to sign his name to official documents, with such intelligence as he may need for his public duties.

Suddenly, we heard the mairie-bell tolling.

He told me by signs how he had seen the fire and given the alarm to the mairie, or city hall, the bell of which tolled for an hour.

To be sure, they have only to go to the mairie, and ask for it, to get it.

The formality is very trying to them, for the reason that the mairie opens at eight, and closes at twelve not to reopen again until three and close at six.

But that condition has really existed since the war broke out, as no one is even allowed to engage a workman whose papers have not been visé at the mairie.