Butor, booby

Pag'e 112. — I. Voilà le marquis; an allusion to his élégant attire.

Paçe 113. — I. Cuistre, snob ; first, a school-servant, then by extension, pédant, and finally snob.

2. Duc de Buckingham, George Villiers, minister and favorite of James I and Charles I, 1592-162S ; an allusion to the story that at a bail in Madrid he adorned himself with maiiy diamonds, and when thèse were torn off in the crowd, he gave them to tlic ladits who picked them up.

Pajjre 115. — I. Châlons, an immense camp instituted in 1857 by Napoléon III between Reims and Châlons, used since the war of 1870 only for manœuvres, etc.