mariée : Distinguish

' marier ' : to give in marriage ; ' épouser ' : to take in marriage ; ' se marier * : to get married.

Ail the popular pièces hâve a happy ending, the artless maiden being paired ofï with the brave young hero.

55.1. copiste du Louvre : An artist who makes a living by copying pictures in the galleries of the Louvre.

55.2. Célimène : The thoughtless, witty, ill-tongued, good-looking ' coquette in Molière' s Misanthrope. ' Une Célimène macabre'

is one whose smile suggests a grinning skull.

55.3. en habit : ' Dress-coat,' which is the regular ' habit de société ' even at functions which do not take place in the evening.

55.4. saute-ruisseau : Properly errand boy, hère one who does the knock-about hack work. Note that Coppée makes the word invariable in the plural.

55.5 . sous le nez : Straight in the face and from very close quarters.

55.6. feuilletonnistes : Are the writers of the literary contributions occupying the lower part — below the heavy horizontal Une — of French daily papers. The ' feuilleton ' may be an essay or a taie by a man of eminence, or a sériai story of the most absurd type, according to the standing of the journal in question. Monday morning is especially devoted in the betterclass papers to critical articles. Sainte-Beuve coUected his weekly ' feuilletons ' contributed to the Constitutionnel and the Moniteur Officiel into the séries of Causeries du Lundi and Nouveaux Lundis, and in the same way Daudet' s Contes du Lundi were originally published in the Figaro.

55.7. Tout-Paris des premières : Everybody that counts when first performances are being given.

55.8. Quand ... de chose? 'When's so-and-so's play to be put on? '

55.9. Étais-tu . . . Variétés? 'Were you at the first -night yesterday at the Variétés ? ' Le théâtre des Variétés, on the Boulevard Montmartre, is a good house for vaudeville, light pièces and revues.

55.10. coulisses: The 'wings.' 'Termes de coulisses': 'greenroom slang,' ' stage jargon.'