de l'argent gros comme lui : ' Any amount of money

75.3. au premier (étage), boulevard Haussmann : This street of handsome flats leads from behind the Opéra by the Avenue de Friedland to the Arc de Triomphe. It is named after a Prefect of the Seine under Napoléon HT, this officiai having done much toward opening up the city and incidentally removing many old landmarks,

75.4. je me mettais sur mon trente-et-un : ' I dressed up to the nines.' ' Trente-et-un ' hère is a corruption of ' trentain,' once the name of a superfine broadcloth.

75.5. Trouvez-en beaucoup, etc. : ' You won't find many, etc.'

76.1. Pourvu que ... de travers : I hope his afïairs are not going wrong ; i.e. I hope he is not in any trouble. Cf. page 37, 1. i .