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All left the room except Tictocq and the Democrats . `` Let 's all go down and open a bottle of fizz on the Finance Committee , '' said the Chairman of the Executive Committee , Platform No. 2 . -LSB- Illustration : `` The Plunkville Patriot , '' April 2 , 1895 -RSB- Or The Mystery of the Rue de Peychaud 'T is midnight in Paris . A myriad of lamps that line the Champs Elysées and the Rouge et Noir , cast their reflection in the dark waters of the Seine as it flows gloomily past the Place Vendôme and the black walls of the Convent Notadam . The great French capital is astir . It is the hour when crime and vice and wickedness reign .