Mâtin, an exclamation of amazement and admiration

4. Soigné; he adds this to impress the waiter with his knowledge of Parisian ways.

5. "RofiVitioxt, a pièce of Roquefort cheese. Roquefort is a small town in the department of Aveyron in the south-central part of France, and is noted for its cheese, which is made of sheep's milk, and ripened in damp caves in the rocks. The mottled green effect is produced by mixing with the curd bread-crumbs, which will mould.

6. Coup-de-vent, a /«^, i. e., a light, spongy, cake. The meaning " gust of wind " is played upon later. Radetzki was an Austrian count and fîeld-marshall, 1 766-1858.

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7. Pompadour; Mme. de Pompadour, 1721-1764, the mistress of Louis XV.

Page 40. — I. En avez-vous . . . , will it take yoti long?

2. Place Vendôme, a square near the Jardin des Tuileries, containing a column erected by Napoléon in 1806, and modelled after that of Trajan at Rome.

3. Je veux bien ; instead of strengthening, as with most verbs, bien weakens the force of vouloir, I am xuilling.

4. Rapportée ; he is confusing the Colonne Vendôme with the obelisk of the Place de la Concorde, a monolith brought from Egypt in 1836.

Page 41. — I. Wagon, car. The w has the soundof v.

Page 42. — I. Cornac, the showman; originally meaning elephant-driver, coming from an Oriental word, it came to mean conductor or guide, and for a while was ail the rage in Paris, being used in the sensé of " one who exhibits wild animais."