Les Champs Élysées. The Greeks called their

paradise Elysium, or the Elysian Fields. ‘ Ely.^êe ’ is not fem. but masc,, taking its form from the noun ^Elysée,' Elysium.

23. — Toute la figure. Figure, like the English ‘ figure/ is used of the outline of an object : La figure de la terre ; il n’a pas figure humaine. In a narrower sense, as here, it is used of the human face : Je connais cette figure-là ; c’est une belle figure.

29. — Je la vois qui sourit. Je la vois souriante=je la vois sourire.