pièces, rooms

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2. je me suis jeté dans le bel esprit, / have taken up literature (for

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a living) ; je suis au poil et à la plume, I am an good at one as at thé other (said of a hunting dog trained to hunt \i^jy (àpoil) and f eatl^eiy {à plume) gajne). The whole of this chapter is a satirical picture of the position of men of letters in Paris.

3. Apollon, Apollo. In Greek, and later in Koman mythology, one of the great Olympian gods, the son of Zeus (Jupiter) and Leto (Latona); was the leader of the Muses, god of music, poetry, and healing.

4. ordinaire réglé, settled^ regular way of living, je ne suis en peine que, the only thing that troubles me is.

5. Plaute, PlautuSy a Roman dramatist, died 184 B. C. Twenty of his comedies, nearly all complete, are extant. Being unable to pay his debts, he became, according to the law of the Twelve Tables, his creditor's slave and worked at turning a mill-stone ; but he preserved throughout his genius.