bois, park (Bois de Boulogne

Page 39. — I. corsages, corsages, i. e. the waists or bodices of balldresses eut " rigoletto," i. e. in a somewhat extrême style.

2. boucles d'oreilles, ear-rings, ornaments still occasipnally worn by French peasant men and even by such well-to-do wood merchants as Robert. So in Daudet's " La Belle Nivernaise," Père Louveau wears them.

3. Bercy, eastern suburb of Paris on the Seine and principal centre for river navigation.