à la bouillotte, a game of cards for five persons

1. 37. d'une nouvelle mariée. It was the custom to présent newly married women with old coins, and to some extent the custom is still prévalent in the country. Thèse old coins were often preserved for years in the same family, and handed over from mother to daughter, but in the nineteenth century the bride often bought articles of luxury with them.

1. 39. Vous avez volé un tronc, you hâve been robbing a poor-box (in a church).

Page 26. 1. 16. débité, entered (to his débit). 1. 26. la bande du tiroir, the side of the drawer. 1. 36. sa cautio7i, his surety.

Page 27. 1. 10. ft vn aval sur les billets de du Tillet, backed du Tillet's bills (with his signature).

1, 13. ce mensonye o^fficieux, conventional (lit. obliging) lie.

1. 14. ne soutint jyas le regard de cet homme, could not look this man in the face.

1. 20. il s'était lié . . . arec la haute banque, he had become connected with financial circles.

1. 22. qu'il faisait mouvoir, which passed through his hands.

1. 25. La Restauration, the restoration of the Bourbons, in the

person of Louis XVIII, brother of Louis XVI, to the throne of France in April, 1814, after the fîrst abdication of Napoléon.