la tête du commerce, the leading commercial people

Page 101. 1. 16. Saint- Sulpi ce, one of the largest churches of Paris, standing in the so-called Quartier Latin.

Page 102. 1. 12. jockeys, trimming falling from the shoulder In ladies' dresses.

l. 27. à quoi s'en tenir, exactly what to think.

Page 103. 1. 25. ce je ne sais quoi de cossu, looking wellto-do, but a bit vulgar.

1. 30. robe ponceau lamée d'or, a poppy-coloured dress worked with gold thread.

1. 34. Catherine II became Empress of Russia in 1762, after the dethronement and subséquent murder of her husband, Peter III, in which she is supposed to hâve had some share. She was a woman of unbounded energy and will-power, and her reign constitutes one of the most prosperous periods in Russian histoiy.