Graveson, a town in the Département des Bouches-du-Rhône

3. deux doigts, the height (in a glass) of the breadth of two fingers.

4. J'en eus l'estomac tout ensoleillé, my stomach was bathed in sunshine.

;;. Prémontrés, a monastic order founded in 1220.

6. chartreuse, a cordial made by the Carthusian monks. Their principal monastery was, until a short time ago, located near Grenoble in southeastern France, but they are now located at Tarragone (Spain), where they went after the decree of expulsion from France.

7. sans y entendre malice, without meaning anything wrong, without any mischievous intention.

8. Erasme, Erasmus, a Dutch scientist known for his religious scepticism (1467-1536). As he wrote in Latin, the French sometimes call him "Le Voltaire latin." — d'Assoucy, a burlesque French poet of the seventeenth century.

Page 72. — 1. la tour Pacôme, thus named after Pacome, a hermit of the fourth century who founded différent monastic communities. The convent hère referred to is, nevertheless. purely imaginary,

2. pas une porte qui tînt, not a door which hung; every door was loose or unhinged.

3. Carmargue, an island formed by two branches of the Rhône river near its mouth.