à corps perdu, headlong

Page 108. — 1. de la gaieté, be merry.

2. Mendelssohn et Schumann, two famous German composers, the fïrst of whom (1809-1847) was born in Hamburg, and the second (1810-1856) in Zwickau (Saxony).

3. La grande Duchesse, le Petit Faust, two burlesque opéras, the former by J. Offenbach, the latter by Hervé.