For years, the little tax-free extras or inducements took the form of “boot money” – a few notes left surreptitiously in a player's boot […]

President [Adolphe] Thiers slipped and fell on the Paris pavement the other day. The fall of a French ruler is a rather frequent occurrence, but Thiers has not slipped much since he ascended the republican throne. In falling, moreover, he differed widely from his becrowned and besceptered predecessors: he got up again.

It took him only twenty minutes to perform the task.

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