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Aix en Savoie : Aix-les-Bains, near Chambéry

94.2. au Derby : i.e. ' au Derby français,* run at Chantilly, near Senlis (Oise).

94.3. Reichshoffen : A small town in Alsace, the scène of a disastrous defeat of the French on the 6th of August 1870.

94.4. chartreuse : A costly liqueur produced by the monks of the Grande-Chartreuse, near Grenoble in Dauphiné. The Order was expelled in 1905, and now carries on this particular industry at Tarragona in Spain.

94.5. petit crevé: Dandy, smart, up-to-date young man, The type is permanent, but it has borne many names, such as ' petit-maître ' in the i /th and 1 8th centuries, ' merveilleux ' in Revolutionary times, ' gommeux,' etc.

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