mais non . . . mais si, why no . . . why yes

4. Rameau (1 683-1 764), a celebrated French composer born in Burgundy.

5. en mesure, keeping time (with the music); according to the tempo of the music.

Le Pape est Mort

Page 48. — i. grande ville de pro/inca, Lyon, in the Department of Rhône, to which Daudet's family moved from Nîmes, Department of Gard, where the writer was born in 1840, is hère meant.

2. rivière, the river Saône is hère referred to. It empties into the Rhône.

Page 49. — 1. un vieux loup de mer, "an old sea-wolf," an old tar, or sea-dog.