le héros de juillet : see note p

,, 15. avec son immuable redingote vert olive : compounds of colour remain unchangeable in French, e.g. la wtv bleue, but la mer bleu vert.

;, 23. s'est cru en pleines barricades : an allusion to the events of July 1830, when there was lighting on the barricades in Paris. Cf. note p. 10, 1. 11.

18. 16. fou, 'niad. ' ' He is a iooV =cest un imbécile, c'est un sot

(not un fou).

,, 21. paria (from the Indian pareyers) : the name given to a nian belonging to the lowest class amongst the Hindoos, and much despised by them. Hence ' an outcast,' ' a man e.xcluded from good society.'