pris en grippe : Taken an aversion to

37.3. me flanquait des calottes : ' Everybody slapped me on the S head.' ' La calotte ' in this sensé is familiar ; so is the verb | ' flanquer.' The meaning of ' calotte ' in literary French is \ ' skull-cap.' '

37.4. la place Clichy : A square within a short distance of the i Cimetière de Montmartre, considerably west of the Butte. I

37.5. pratiques: ' Customers.' Note that a customer is ' une ■ pratique,' always féminine. î

37.6. rapport à : A familiar phrase for ' à cause de,' ' owing ] to.' \

37.7. Lariboisière : A hospital founded in the middle of last ^ century by a lady of that name, whose tomb is situated in the 1 hospital chapel. The hospital is in the Montmartre district, | and stands just beside the Gare du Nord. I