licencié, dismissed

17. dont le pommeau travaillé au tour avait pour ombre le silhouette de l'empereur, the knob of which, exquisitely wrought, gave the profile of the emperor in iis shadow.

20. Charlet. Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet, born in Paris in 1792, died in 1845, was one of the most popular and original lithographers of the modem school in the first half of the présent century. As a painter he was médiocre, but in lithography he was unsurpassed, and his lithographs give him a place among the first French artists of the 19th century.

22. serré à la taille dans sa redingote à brandebourgs, closely buttoned up in his laced frock-coat.

26. donnèrent le plus mauvais goût à ses passions politiques, mode his polilical passion» appear in the worst light. Lit., ' gave the worst turn/ etc.

28. Quotidienne, The Daily, a violent sheet, founded in 1792, representing the aristocracy, and denouncing republicanism in ail of its forms. It was several times discontinued, and changed its name, and finally disappeared under this name in 1847.

28. Drapeau Blanc, The WhiteFIng. Another violent aristocratie sheet, founded in 1819. It survived until 1830,

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when it was discontinoed just before the Révolution of

July.

45* — 35. des incartades de son hôte, from the extravagances

of his guest.