ronflements de coquillages : " roaring of sea-shells

1"* à l'envi : " emulously."

1* Pie VII : Pope Pius VII, whose relations vvith Napoléon had always been strained, was treated with especial harshness after the emperor's return from Russia in l8i2, being detained as prisoner at Fontainebleau till 1814.

'^ commediante, tragediante: Italian for " coniedian," " tragedian."

ic argyronètes : " water spiders."