le Prater, the fashionable walk at Vienna

^- 53' !• 3- cabriolet (etym. cabrioler, to jump about). " A cause que ces voitures, étant légères, sautent beaucoup." (Littré.)

1. 12. ils se sont fait. Note ihdL.i fait is in the singular because se is the dative, ils ont fait à eux-mêmes — they hâve made or done to themselves. Ils se sont faits would mean t/iej/ hâve made or rendered themselves... znd would be equal to ils ont fait etix-tnemes.

1. 13. îin État jacobin, a state governed according to the ultra-republican principles of the French revolutionists. The Jacobins were called thus because the place where their club met was the convent of the Jacobin friars situated in Paris, rue Saint Honoré.

1. 16. il sîiffisait du...=le moindre sens comimin suffisait.

1. 23. Odessa, a town in Russia, on the Black Sea, enlarged in 1795 by the empress Catharine II, who gave to it its présent name, as a mémorial of the Greek colony of Odessus.