îtn tableau, a panel

1. 13. Voilà Vun des lieutenants d'Alexandre. Birotteau means to say that Popinot's business, developing, as it did, a branch of his own former trade, would rise in prosperity as the leaders in the army of Alexander the Great rose in power after the latter died without leaving a direct heir.

1. 34. Nous avons obtenu le placement de trois mille grosses, we hâve succeeded in placing three thousand gross.

Page 189. 1. 10. s'ingéniait, taxed lier ingenuity.

1. 21. du mouvement des fonds, of the fluctuation in the price of stocks.

1. 23, tirait parti des fonds dans les reports à la Bourse, he turned to account the fluctuations he observed in the Stock Exchange.

Page 190. 1. 5. Kest j^as détruit qui veuf, not everybody who wishes to appear so is stricken down with grief.

1. 31. une permission curiale, a permission (to work on Sundays) from the curé, or vicar.