c'est mauvais genre, it is bad manners

1. 35. comme trois premiers sujets de VOpéra se détachent sur la lourde cavalerie des comparses, as three leading singera of the Opéra stand out against the heavy troop of supernumeraries.

Page 105. 1. 1. le ^crescendo' du ^ tutti' i. e. the crescendo of the whole orchestra, hère ' the gênerai crescendo.'

Page 106. 1. 11. ficelée, popular expression for habillée, * rigged out.'

1. 22. au moulinet, a figure in the quadrille, corresponding to ' ladies in the centre ' in Lancers.