Why, the Colonne Vendôme is France, and a trophy of its past greatness,alas, at present in the shadeis not the monument, but the record of a victorious race who strode through the world conquering as they went, planting the tricolour everywhere.

"Colour, of course, is a matter of fancy, although I infinitely prefer the tricolour, which has a tan head and a black and white body.

Socialism, or the Red Republic, is all one; for it would tear down the tricolour and set up the red flag.

A captain of the National Guard has been the first in that quarter to unfurl the tricolour.

No painted beauty of the stage waved the tricolour to the shout of "À Berlin!"