écu. A French coin no longer in use, worth three francs

146, 7. la première chute de HapoIËon. After the failure of the Russian campaign and the foSawing campaign in the défense of France, Napoléon abdicated, zo April, 1S14, and the cxiled Bourbon house returned in the person of Louis XVIII.

117, ;. à même son cœur ^ "right in her heart." Cf. the expression "boire à même k bouteille" = "to drink direetly trom the bottle."

24. la gueire des Cent-Jours. On 26 Feb., 1815, Napoléon escaped from Ihe island of Flba in the Meditcrranean, whcrc he had bccn cxiled on his abdication, and rcgained the throne, but was crushed at Waterloo, in Bclgium, 18 June, 1815.

1116, iS. cave. Hcrc of course the ivine in the cellar is meant.

IM, 21. le Ba bê bi bo bu ^ "the a, b, c."

166, 4. Et chacun d'estimer. This and the foUowing inSnitives are examples of tbe so-callcd "bistorical" infinilivc. Translate: "Every one began to cstimate," etc.

10, juré-peseur = "juryman appraiser."

14, Waignies. Not identificd as any real forest.

170, ?2. Le mariage émancipe! This means that as soon as she is married, lier falhet will hâve no more authority over her,

171, 2. toutes les valeurs de la succession se capitaliseront, etc. "AU tbe asaels of the inhcritance wil! be liquïdalcd."

14. coupe i blanc = "cuts down complctely." 22. le grand-li?re. This was a regisler or lîst of the names of those who were créditera of the state. — les fonds = "government

173, ig. en présence de ~ "at odds with."

179, 7, en seconde: i.e. in the second dass, that is the neit to the highest.

181, ?6. communauté. Thîs is a légal term meaning property held joinlly by husband and wife.

162, iB. huissier priseur. An oflicer called the "court appraiser."

163, 22. Hainaut. An old province of Flaoders, a part of which became French under Louis XIV (1659).

W, ît. délégation ^ "assignaient."