tignasse : ' Pow,' unkept head of hair

37.10. Jeunes Détenus : A reformatory, not far from the Cimetière I du Père Lachaise. ]

37.11. le pavé: The streets. Note that 'le pavé' does not] properly mean ' pavement ' but ' causeway ' ; ' pavement ' is | ' le trottoir.' '

37.12. drôles: Blackguards. Observe the wide différence ini meaning between this use of ' drôle ' as a noun and its use as an adjective (' funny ').

37.13. le passage, in a French town, means a covered way through which only foot-passengers may pass (' arcade ').

37.14. tomber: Note this transitive use of 'tomber' : to 'throw' a man.

37.15. les hercules de foire: The strong men at the shows, who make the round of the local fairs.

38.1. les trains de bois: ' Timber-rafts ' (timber that has been

floated down from the upper reaches of the Seine and from its tributaries) .

38.2. Sainte-Pélagie : The prison in which especially political prisoners and ofïenders against the Press laws were confined.