partis, chances, matches

8. au Salon des Champs-Elysées. The Salon des Champs-Elysées is an exhibition of paintings which takes place in Paris every year during the month of May, and is held in a large building which was erected in the park of the Champs-Elysées for the Exposition of 1855.

9. Roubaix is a manufacturing city of northern France. It boasts of the largest wool and cotton mills in France and has a population of 115,000.

10. après espérances réalisées, after we had received ail oiir inheri tances.

Page 112. — 1. passe partout, introduction.

2. il vient, quoique Robineau, d'être reçu, although he is called

Robineau, he ha s just been admittea. " Robineau " is a rather vulgar name, and certain clubs in Paris only admit members of aristocratie families. 3. échos, news, chronides.