bon air, a prepossessing appearance

P. 70, 1. I. prix de rhétorique, a prize in the class of rhétorique, corresponding to the sixth form in English public schools. See on this point M. Alphonse Karr's amusing novel Fo)-t en thème.

1. 3. la tribune, the rostrum where orators speak in the French political assemblies.

s'accrocher, to cling to.

1. 12. faîrez, contracted {xoxa. paierez, on account of the metie.