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42 live in his phrase likening the town to a "frog in the mouth of a snake."

At present this abode of rulers is transformed into barracks and commissariat stores for the French troops located in the town. But when one observes the fiery, proud looks of the natives and contemplates the great masonry of the walls and the ancient mosque, one involuntarily lives over in imagination a page in the history of Tlemsen.