fut mis à la retraite : ' Retired on pension

21.2. la place de la Fontaine: The public square, often supplied with some ornamental and useful water supply.

21.3. canton : Each ' Département ' (County) in France is divided into from four to eight ' Arrondissements.' Each of thèse is sub-divided into a number of ' Cantons,' and thèse, finally, are divided into ' Communes ' (roughly parishes), each having its ' maire ' and ' conseil municipal.'

21.4. flamboyant : Lit. ' flaming ' or ' flamedike,' is the technical and historical term applied to the last period of Gothic architecture in France (i5th-i6th century), and was suggested by

the forms that characterized that style in its window tracery and other ornament. Some very beautiful churches, or parts of churches, in both France and England, date from this period.

21.5. Chemin de Croix: A séries of fourteen pictures placed at intervais on the interior walls or on the pillars of a church, and representing successive stages in the story of the Passion.

21.6. du quartier Saint-Sulpice : The district round the square and church of that name. It lies south of the Boulevard Saint- Germain, between this and the Jardin du Luxembourg. The church, completed in the eighteenth century, is one of the largest in Paris ; it is monstrously heavy, though, as to its interior, ornate. The neighbourhood abounds in establishments for the manufacture and sale of church requisites and ecclesiastical furnishings of every kind.

21.7. s'émaillait des grands parapluies, etc. : Was gay with the big red and blue umbrellas, four or five feet wide, which the market-women erect to protect their eggs and butter from sun, wind and rain.

21.8. en berlingots: The 'berlingot' is a 'berline' with only the back-seat, that is, a ' brougham.'