louis, a gold coin worth twenty francs

27. — 5. ce sont tous des fainéants et des débauchés. M. Poirier voices the opinion of the bourgeoisie conoeming artiste.

6. qui donnent la chair de poule, wkich make your flesh creep. Chair de poidey "flesh of hen," is, in English, "goose flesh."

13. Je l'ai entendu dire à des gens, I çotit (what l've just told you) from people,

17. une fiole de mon pomard de 1811, a hotUe of my 1811 Pomard wine. Pomard, or Pommard, is a village in Burgundy. In France, it is popularly beUeved that a cornet présages a good year for wine. In 1811 the popular beUef came true — France saw a cornet and had good wine.