C'est cela, ThaVs right

20. — 1. pour te faire bien venir d'elle, in order to win her faoor; to curry favor with her. Compare 6icnt;enw -"welcome."

17. Ça ne se prend pas comme un rhume, You canH get an em^ bassy as you get a cold; more literally, "That is not got like a cold," a reflexive construction replacing the passive voice.

21. Mais on est obligé de ne prétendre à rien. Antoinette means

NOTES

that Gaston's aristocratie views and affiliations prevent bim from aspinng to anything under the new régime. Her remark is fully explained before the end of Act I.

%1, — 3. un étoumeau, a giddy féUow; lit., "a starling/' a kind of bird.

13. il est ici comme un coq en pâte. Translate: ?ie haa heen Iwing in cUmer here. Un coq en pûte^un coq que Von empâte, "& rooster that is being fattened" (by feeding it pâte, "paste," "dough")»

21. Dame! WeW Dame is a shortened form of Dame-Dieu (from the Latin Domine Deus), an old interjection meaning "Lord Godl''