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passa son briquet, buckled on his sword

Page 156. — i. songe à nous montrer les talons, show us your heels, i.e. "get out."

Page 167. — i. Pantin. The présent Porte de Pantin at the end of the Rue d'Allemagne indicates the place.

2. buttes Chaumont et de Belleville. This rising ground to the West and South of the unknown woman's course is now occupied by workmen's dwellings and a park.

Page 1 58* — i . moellons, rubble, or irregular stones in masonry. Not "ashlars."

Page 159. — i. couyent des Carmes, monasUry of Carmélites, one of the scènes of the infamous massacres of September 2-7 1792. It stood near the Place Maubert, was founded in 1309, and was levelled to make way for a marketplace in 181 2.

Page 160. — I. abbaye de Chelles, founded about 650. The village is about ten miles east of Paris and had in 1789 eight other monastic houses.

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