qu'on . . . See page 6, note

Page 37. — i. la Sarthe, a department in Western France formed with parts of the old provinces of Maine and Anjou and named from the main river passing through it.

2. la Lorraine, an old Eastern French province, the remains of the former kingdom of Lotharingia.

Page 38. — i. les deux provinces annexées. Alsace (except the city of Belfort and its territory) and a part of Lorraine were ceded to Germany by the treaty of Francfort (1871).

2. la fête des Rois, the Tivelfthnight, celebrated on January 6. People celebrate it by inviting friends to take dinner with them. At dessert, a cake is served in which a bean or sometimes a small china doll has been concealed. (See Maupassant's Huit Contes Choisis, p. 51, D. C. Heath & Co.) The person who gets it is elected king or queen according to the sex, and sélects a partner, king or queen, as the case may be. Hence the allusion, Une 29 : à la grande reine.

3. petit vin, light wine. — La Moselle, a river flowing through

Eastern France and Germany; also a part of the old province of Lorraine.

Pagre 39. — l. COXnm.e, sometking Hke.