Bien le bonjour, A very good day to you

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23. la rue des Bourdonnais, a commercial street in Paris, running^ from the Central Market to the Seine.

24. on va vous couper vos talons rougesl Translate: PU make y ou corne down a peg or two! Lit., "one is going to eut your red heels for you!" The shoes of courtiers formerly had red heels. M. Poirier means that he will tame his son-in-law's aristocratie pride.

25. le premier couplet de «Monsieur et Madame Denis,» the first stanza of, etc. Monsieur et Madame Denis is a song written by Marc-Antoine Désaugiers (1772-1827). In the song, Monsieur and Madame Denis, an old married couple, are represented as reviving happy memories of their early wedded life. In the first stanza Madame Denis speaks as follows:

Quoi! vous ne me dites rien!

Mon ami, ce n'est pas bien.

Jadis c'était différent,

Souvenez-vous-en,

Souvenez-vous-en.

J'étais sourde à vos discours,

Et vous me parliez toujoursl

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