agent de change. See note to p

1. 16. une robe lamée, a dress worked with gold (or silver) wire.

1. 23. Il a été pris de justice, he has been in the police-court.

1. 25, sieur, formerly a fréquent form of address for gentlemen, as it is still in the compound monsieur; now used only with a touch of humorous patronage, and also in légal parlance.