Médecins; Colladan is surprised to hear of veterinaries

4. Faire des brioches, make a slip; properly, to make mistakes in music. Brioche is a little cake; the way in which it is brought into this idiom is amusingly explained in Larousse's Encyclopedia.

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2. Bal de l'Opéra; thèse balls date from 1715, and now are given during the wiiiter, ending with a very hilarious masked bail on Shrove Tuesday.