cortège de dames, " bevy of ladies

28. ceinturés de tricolore, "witb tbe tbree-colored sasb'' in wbicb députés, mayors, etc., appear at solemn occasions.

31. chapeau haute forme, i.e. à haute formât "a bigb bat." 13. — 16. oanot à vapeur, launcb or tender.

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14. — 4. Marseillaise, tbe welUknown Frencli national hymn. 8. nne fanfare se mit de la partie, ** a brass band joined in."

10. cacophonie, combination of discordant sounds. The que in the next line is an expletive. — P'tit Bleu is a name given to the bad wine of certain cheap restaurants.

11. agrémenté, adomed. This verb is not jet accepted as perf ectly good French.

12. café-concert, or café-chantant, a kind of popnlar music-hall peculiar to Paris.

21. la houle du large, ** the swell of the high sea." 16,— 11. geste apprêté, **studied gesture."

12. le laissait voir, ' ' let him {lui understood) see it, ** i.e. the fact.