Robberies occasionally occur, but they are rare.

"Social evils" have again made their appearance, but they are not so insolently conspicuous as they were under the paternal rule of the Empire.

Paris, once so gay, has become as dull as a small German capital.

Its inhabitants are not in the depths of despair, but they are thoroughly bored.

They are in the position of a company of actors shut up in a theatre night and day, and left to their own devices, without an audience to applaud or to hiss them.