un petit fonds, etc. : A little drapery business

36.1. place de la Bastille : The wide square on the right bank of the Seine, at the point of intersection of the Boulevard Beaumarchais, the rue Saint-Antoine, and sevcral other well-known thoroughfares. The State prison known as the Bastille, and destroyed in 1789, once stood hère. The colonne de Juillet, which occupies the centre of the square, is erected to the memory of the men who fcll in the street-fighting during the Révolution of July 1830. The Bastille is not one of the aristocratie quart ers of Paris.

36.2. corde à boyau: ' Gut-string.' Hère, a kind of ' Japanese 1 fiddle.' \

36.3. Demandez, etc. : The regular formula used by hawkers : ! ' Who wants ? ' ' who'll buy ? ' ' hère you are ! ' I