cuver son vin = dormir après avoir trop bu

1. 28. placet = a pétition, originally the Latin verb signifying assent to it.

1. 31. cerceau, the ' farthingale ' or hoop worn to display the flowered gowns of the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, like the crinoline in the nineteenth.

Page 90. 1. 20. de la part de = au nom de. Cf. Zadig, p. 74. 1. 18.