tapages, demands. 6. m'engager, to enlist in the army

Page 32. — i. dé veinard gribouilleur, unlucky scribbler ; notice that both words are slang. 2. j'en serais quitte, I would only hâve.

Page 34. — i. L'Ecole de Saint-Cyr, a military school for the infantry and cavalry, is situated in a town of the same name a few miles out of Paris.

2. Je crois bien qu'il les aurait, ses mille francs, indeed he zvould hâve his thousand francs. 3. ma lettre chargée, my registered letter.

Page 35. — i. si je fais réduire et les soumets à trois bouillons,

if I let them boil down and boil them three limes.

2. parbleu ! this is an old oath, " par le sang bleu de Dieu," modified in modem times to an exclamation; trans., I wantyou to know.