écriture de nourrice : ' Uneducated fist

72.8. chez un entrepreneur de démolitions : We should say ' in a builder's yard.' The phrase means literally a contracter for the démolition of houses or one who buys and sells the material that results from such undertakings.

Ivry is the district close to the river and just outside the * fortifications ' at the south-east corner of Paris. 73. T. le tuyau de poêle : Silk-hat, ' stove-pipe hat.'