clief-lieu, * head quarters

Page 40. 1. 1. des polichinelles, ' Punch and Judies.' Polichinelle was originally a figure from the Neapolitan farces representing a grotesquely dressed and clownish peasant who amuses the audience with his homely wit.

I. 9. le Père de famille, a play by the French philosopher Diderot (1712-1784).

1. 12. madame Gigogne is a marionette figure representing a mother with innumerable children hanging round her skirts.

Page 41. 1. 8. (TEudistes. The Eudistes were a congrégation of secular prieste founded at Caen in 1643 by the Oratorian

priest Jean Eudes. Its object was the éducation of priests and missionaries. It has survived to modem times as the ' Congrégation de Jésus et de Marie.'

1. 13. régent, formerly a name given to a master in a school.