assez juste : Fairly reliable

51.5. le Grand- Livre : The list of stock-holders in the National Funded Debt.

51.6. Montmorency : A little town beautifully situated a few miles north-west of Paris, in the department of Seine-et-Oise.

51.7. Sainte-Barbe: A collège near the lycée Louis-le-Grand and the Panthéon.

51.8. des Oiseaux: The couvent school of the 'Ancienne Maison des Oiseaux,' standing at the junction of the Boulevard des Invalides and the Boulevard du Montparnasse, opposite the Institution des Jeunes Aveugles.

51.9. rôles à collants : Parts which required him to appear in tights.

51.10. le ruban rouge . . . boutonnière: It would not be long before the red ribbon (of the Légion of Honour) adorned his buttonhole (coat lapel).

51.11. il avait bien conservé : ' Bien ' means ' indeed ' or ' to be sure.'