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The Chamber of Deputies: the lower house of the French parliament, housed in the Palais-Bourbon on the Quai d'Orsay. ↩
Violets were the emblem of the Bonapartists (see 25 June 1878); Marie is dressing for the Chamber. ↩
France had occupied Tunisia in the spring of 1881 (Treaty of Bardo, 12 May 1881) and made it a protectorate. The Chamber's debate on the expedition in early November 1881 was expected to bring down Jules Ferry's ministry, which resigned soon after; Gambetta formed his government on 14 November. ↩