la rousse: Slang for 'la police,' 'les agents

49.8. Cayenne : The capital of French Guiana, used as a pénal settlement to this day.

49.9. récidiviste : A habituai criminal. After a certain number of previous convictions for serions offences such a person is transport ed for life.

50.1. les troisièmes rôles : The part of villain, traitor, tyrant, etc. In traditional drama, or rather melodrama, the hero and heroine hâve respectively the lirst and second ' rôles,' and the funny man, if there is one, has the fourth.

50.2. boulevard du Crime: At the théâtre where melodrama was played. The chief houses that purvey this kind of fare today are la Porte Saint-Martin, l' Ambigu-Comique, and la Gaîté.

50.3. Mordaunt : In a melodrama founded on Dumas' Vingt Ans Après, in which Mordaunt, the son of ' Milady ' (of Les Trois Mousquetaires) figures as the chief ' villain.' His duel with D'Artagnan will be found in ch. xi. of vol. iii.

50.4. la colichemarde : An old-fashioned sword with a broad blade suddenly narrowing about the middle of its length to the from of a rapier. The word is a corruption of the German name ' Kônigsmark,' to which it bears some resemblance in Sound. Cf. ' coqueluche,' from ' Keuchhusten ' (whoopingcough). D'Artagnan was a Gascon noble of the I7th century who remains famous chiefiy as the hero in Dumas' taie. Les Trois Mousquetaires.

50.5. Rodin is the treacherous hypocrite in Le Juif Errant, by

Eugène .Sue (1804-57), who himself melodramatized his novel after it had achieved its great success.

50.6. Lucrèce Borgia : The heroine of Victor Hugo's play of that name (1833). Historically she was a member of a notorious Italian family of Spanish origin, her father being Pope Alexander VI and her brother Csesar Borgia. To ail three the foulest crimes are attribut éd. The duc d'Esté was the husband of Lucrèce.