Vinoy : See note

95.2. Bicêtre : Just outside and south-east of Paris. A great lunatic asylum is situated in the locality.

95.3. manches à balais : Lit. ' broom-sticks,' i.e. ' poplars.'

95.4. à tonnelles : With arbours, so that guests may dine in the open air.

95.5. le jeu de tonneau : The apparatus for playing a certain game of skill, which consists in throwing small métal disks into numbered openings.

96.1. chassepot : The French rifle of the time (named from its inventer) . It was replaced by another type in 1874.