les fonds j)ublics, French Government Consols

1. 32. Vile Saint-Louis. The city of Paris, besides being built on both banks of the Seine, includes two islands, Vile de la Cité and Vile Saint-Louis ; this latter, the smaller of the two, is a somewhat duU and sleepy quarter.

1. 35. uii magasin de nouveautés, a linen-draper's shop, which also stocks fancy articles.

Page 18. 1. 5. féru, stricken. The infinitive of the verb férir, to strike, now appears only in the phrase sans coup férir, ' without striking a blow' ; the past participle/ent, the only other part of the verb in use, has now a purely figurative meaning.