une verre d'eau à la neige = eau glacée

Page 86« — i. des gens comme il faut = well bred people.

2. s'émaillait, was studded. The same figurative meaning of the word entailler is found in the idiomatic expression une prairie entaillée de fleurs^ lit.: "a meadow enamelled with flowers."

3. ce type si connu des monnaies syracusaines. On the site of the présent city of Syracuse, in Sicily, there was during the Roman republic one of the largest strongholds of the Ancient World, which, according to Strabo, covered an area of 28 kilometers. Extensive excavations hâve been made hère, which brought to light many monuments and ancient coins.

4. cols de cariatide, Col = cou ; cariatide^ lit. : " woman f rom Cariae," a city of Greece. In architecture = female figure in long robes, serving as a column, thus " neck of a cariatide" means a strong neck.

5. la grande Grèce, name given by the Romans to the southern part of Italy, where there were a number of large and flourishing Greek colonies. Compared with Greece proper, this territory of colonies was very large, therefore la grande Grèce.

Pag^e 37. — i . galerie du maréchal Soult. One of the marshalls of Napoléon 1. He took part mainly in the Spanish campaigns. He carried away from Spain a large number of valuable paintings which he did not send to the Louvre in Paris, but to his own castle, at St. Amans. But upon his death in 181 5 his gallery was sold and became a part of the I^uvre Muséum.

2. Murillo, the celebrated Spanish painter (161 8-1 682), who painted mainly religious pictures.

3. la cuisine se mêlait de juger Pappartement. Se mêler de, when used of persons = "to interfère where one has no business." Thus hère: The kitchen, i.e. the kitchen servants, took the liberty of pronouncing an opinion on the apartment, i.e. on the people of the apartments, consequently the guests of the hôtel.