UNE NUIT MÉMORABLE

Canne de Jonc, ' Malacca cane ' or ' walking-stîck.'

X. The first night of the three days' rîots in Paris that ended in the abdication of King Charles x,, and brought Absolute Monarchy to a close in France; the Duke of Orléans, the représentative of the younger branch of the royal house of Bourbon, succeeded his cousin, under the name Louis Philippe I., by granting the people a constitutional clfarter similar in character to our Magna Carta extorted in 12 15 from King John, and became constitutional King of France.

7. Les boulevards. The 'Boulevards' of Paris are the largest ànd most fashionable thoroughfares. Thèse were, in the time of Louis xiv., simply a line of fortifications round the city ; hence their name, derived from the German bollwerk, a fortification. Compare our ' bulwark.' Napoléon m. extended the limits of Paris, and the old line of fortifications has become the * Boulevards Extérieurs.'

8. minuit, 'mîdnight.' Masc. in French, though derived from mediam nocteni ; cf. midi, m,, *mid-day.*

ZZ. éteintes, * dark.' Literally * extinguished ' {éteindre), comme mortes, 'seemed dead.' Lit ' as dead.'

Z5. leur glissait . . . basse, * whispered secret words into their ears.' Notice glisser hère active, usually neut. s'to slip,* *slide.*

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17. Ils se collaient, *They squeezed against,' lit. 'glued themselves against.'

18. des petites portes d'allées. N.B. des instead of de which is required before a noirn preceded by an adj. e.g.,yai de bonnes pommes. Petites portes d'allées are hère considered as one Word only : cf. des petits-maîtres ( = dandies) ; des petitsgarçons ( = little boys). Id^ petits garçons ^ovXà mean * short waiters. * allées, * passages * ; sometimes= * path,* * walk.*

22. de distance en distance, *at intervais.' Cf. de temps en temps = * from time to time.*