qui lui faisait envie, that lie was craving for

3. vous aviez des cigales eu tête, you ivere gay; you were singing as if you had a head full of cicadas.

Page 80. — 1. rien ne pouvait, nothing availed.

2. Nîmes, cf. page 48, note 1. — Aix, the former capital of the old Province of Provence is situated about seventeen miles north of Marseilles. — Avignon, the former capital of the Comtat- Venaissin (cf. page 74, note 6), was the Pope's résidence from 130g to 1377. — Marseille, the most important seaport of France on the Mediterranean.