ordonnateur de fêtes, director, manager of parties

3. — 4. légitimiste. A term applied originally to the adhérents of the elder branch of the Bourbon family. The last member of that branch to occupy the French throne was Charles X., who was banished in 1830. He was succeeded by Louis Philippe, Duke of

Orléans, representing the yoanger brancb, whose partisans were called Orleanists. When in 1883 tlie Comte de Chambord, grandson of Charles X. died without belrs the right of succession passed to the yonnger branch. When the tenu légitimiste is used at ail now, it means simply royalist.

5. les gens les plus qualifiés, *'the most titled people/' 23. empressement inquiet, ''troubled eagemess.*'

25. bougonne, "peevish." Littré says of this word that it is used only in the most careless styles.

4. — 1. C'était . . . enfant, ** it was at least so mnch saved for the child. " Ça for cela.

12. Il . . . duell " He hasn't fought a duel?" 16. Plût au ciel I ' * Would to God (he had)! "

25. flair metaphoricaliy means a subtle power of "intuition." 31. mon gaillard = " the fellow.''

5.— 2. ordres du eamet de la rente, memoranda of stocks or bonds.