languissaiites, hère tedious

1. 14. théorbe., or téorbe, a kind of lute, or stringed instrument played with the fingers.

1. 17. des milieux. M. Littré, quoting this passage in his dictionary, remarks on the expression Milieux, " On ne sait ce qu'il (Voltaire) a voulu dire par là."

1. 24. dtt roi; their officiai title was la grande bande des vingtquatre violons de la chajtibre, their leader was called roi des violons ; in that capacity he had succeeded to the privilèges of the old roi des ménétriers.

1. 26. la mjisique ; note that a military band is always called la musiqîie ; thus la miisique de la Garde Républicaine means the band of the Republican guard ; the band of the opéra, of a concert, &c. is called T orchestre.

1. 28. noter la danse, to express the différent figures in a dance by notes.

1.29. on danse à livre otivert ; play on the words ; the phrase means hère one dances by reading, or one rcads off oné's dance ; it might also mean one dances at sight.