En frac, in lay dress

1. 32. les filles. Observe the distinction between ' une jeune fille ' and ' une fille,' the latter being nearly always used in a pejorative sense.

1. 33. madame Dubarri, the notorious Comtesse du Barry, mistress of Louis XV from 1769, and practically the ruler of France until that king's death in 1774. She was guillotined

in 1793.