Layola, Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit order

125.-8. faire des sommations. Ko one can marry in France without the consent of his parents. Should the consent be withheld, and the petitioner still persist in his or her résolve to marry, if he is twenty-five years old, or she twenty-one, they may send to their parents (or their next living progenitors) sommations respeetueuseSt a respectfçl request. After sending this three times they are free to pass over the veto.

10. si dure fut-elle, a rare construction for quelque dure qu*elle fût, "however hard it may be."

128. — 10. communards, the rebels who fought for the Commune, the insurrectionary govemment of Paris, in 1871. ard is a termination of contempt; e.g. un vantard, '*a braggart"; un moucTiard, *'aspy."

29. manière de s'y prendre, "a question of management." ffy prendre = ** to take a certain course in a matter (^)."

130. — 9. saut-de-loup, ** wolf's jump," is a ditch dug at the extremity of the alleys or walks of a park in order to shut them, without intercepting the view of the outside landscape. The

8aui-dô-loup de la Muette is sucli a ditch in the BaU de Boulogne of Paris.