placard, cupboard

3. Gymnase . . . Porte Saint Martin, théâtres then especially frequented by the commercial class.

Page 119. — I. caphamaiim, lumber room, The word is derived from the Galilean city, Capemaum. Cp. St. Matthew xi, 23.

2. jours de souffrance, Windows by tolérance, either because exempted from the Door and Window Tax, or because subject to closure at the will of the adjoining owner.

3. Réveillon as a maker of wall-paper is unknown to the great French " Biog^raphie Nationale.*'

4. pains à cacheter, adhesive wafers, Gummed envelopes were not then made.

5. Lebrun (Charles, 161 9-1 690), executed many large paintings and tapestries for Louis XIV, among them a séries of "Battles of Alexander."

6. cannetilles, woven wire décorations, of a kind now happily obsolète.