à deux fins, of double purpose

3. éternelle pendule de l'empire, the inévitable mantel-clock in the impérial style.

Page 123. — i. menu bois, kindling-wood.

Page 127. — i. émigré, i.e. left the country rather than serve a régicide republic.

Page 128. — i. Louis XVIII alors régnant. Louis assumed the title king in 1795. He actually reigned, with the brief interval of the Hundred Days after Napoleon's return from Elba (181 5), from 181 4 to 1824. The contrast between him and Napoléon gives point to the satire in the Unes that follow.

2. attentes, holders, that is, bands fastened at the ends beneath which the epaulettes could be slipped.

Page 129. — 1. voltigeur de Louis XIV, that is, a person who had, as it were, "vaulted over" the period of monarchical decay, of the Révolution and the Empire, and entered the period of the Restoration (18 14-1 830) with the préjudices of the seventeenth century.