à deux fins, of double purpose

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

Pagre 128. — i. menu bois, kindling-^vood.

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

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

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

Page 129. — i. yoltigeur de Louis ZIV, 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 Kestoration (18 14-1830) with the préjudices of the seventeenth century.