Tours, a city of Touraine, on the Loire

3. Lyon, Lyons, a large city on the Rhône, some 200 miles N. of Marseilles and of the Mediterranean.

4. les oisifs qui soupent, souper is a somewhat optional late meal, often a midnight indulgence following the théâtre, bail, etc.

Page 202. — 1. Flandre, i.e. French Flanders, a province of France, bordering on Belgium.

2. Alsace, a Germanie province, on the Rhine, wrested from France by Prussia in 1871.