The grocers, the butchers, and the bakers, and the military tailors, still make money; but they are denounced for doing so at the clubs as bad patriots.

As for the hotels, almost all of them are closed.

At the Grand Hotel, there are not twenty persons.

Business of every kind is at a standstill.

Those who have money, live on it; those who have not, live on the State: the former shrug their shoulders and say, "Provided it does not last;" the latter do not mind how long it lasts.