It is difficult to find any precise quantitative information about the evolution of the number of clerks in the metropolitan administration.
In actual fact, return from the colonies to the metropole was a routine phenomenon, and returned colonials were familiar figures on the metropolitan landscape.
The underlying dependence of the post-colonial bourgeoisie upon metropolitan sponsors remains unchanged.
His metropolitan existence lacks this tragic, poetic register.
As one would expect, it is a depiction that has also been observed in metropolitan newspapers.
They were thus incompatible with politeness, which was allied with the metropolitan and cosmopolitan and the pursuit of a general culture.
While this trade was subject to various state regulations, ' as in other spheres, metropolitan control hovered in the background but was limited ' (p. 141).
This provincial paradise would triumph over the decadence of metropolitan culture simply by escaping its infections.