propre = élégant

3. ce matin. During the king’s morning réception, his lever in hif bed-chamber.

4. mettez votre chapeau = couvrez-vous (cf. page 43, line 9). Nobles kept their hats on, but lower social grades were supposed to stand uncovered in the presence of their superiors.

Pîig’e 48. — I. J’aime mieux être incivil qu’importun, /’// rather be unmannerly than troublesotne (Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor^

NOTES

Act I., Scene I), a coiiventional phrase of politeness, which was coi sidered somewhat vulgar.