Excerpt from Paris in Its Splendour, Vol. 2 of 2Contrary to the rule which obtains in the English House of Commons, each deputy has his appointed seat, and the portions of the house are permanently reserved for the different sections of Opinion, quite irrespective of the change of government. The broad divisions are the right (i. E., on the right hand of the president), comprising what is equivalent to the Conservative party, the left, the ultra-republican party (radicals, Socialists while in the centre, acting as a kind of buffer, sit the moderate Republicans, with the right centre and left centre as connecting links. In short, the extremes of opinion are on the end benches, and the lessening shades of difference meet and blend in the centre to form the happy mean.Voting is by ballot, each deputy placing a white (for) or blue (against) card in the voting-urn. If a member wishes to speak he must ascend the tribune and speak from this prominent position.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.