la rue des Bourdonnais. See note to page 48, line

12. le faubourg Saint-Germain. In 1846, the date of the action of this play, the old French aristocracy lived in the faubourg Saint- Germain, on the left bank of the Seine. Faubourg means, literally, "suburb"; also, a district now within a city but formerly outside its walls, as (in Paris) faubourg SairUrGerrnainf faubourg Saint-Antoine, faubourg Saint-Marceau,

19. Pincebourde. Another plebeian name. Pincer- "to pinch," "to catch"; 6(mr(Ze-"fib," "He," "whopper."

21. doit chanter au dessert. The old French custom of singing at dessert is not whoUy obsolète even to-day.

23. un cent de piquet, a game of piquet (of one himdred points). Piquet is played with thirty-two cards. Two, three, or four players may participate.

25. un loto, a game of lotto, Lotto is a game played with cards bearing numbers, five in each line, the holder covering a number when it is called by one who draws numbered balls from a bag.

NOTES

The game is won by the player who first covers a line of numben (Webster's New ItUemcUionai DU^iorutry),

26. un nain-jaune, lit., ''yellow dwarf"; a card game, called "Pope Jean" in England.

61. — 2. Capoue, Capua, an ancient city, fiifteen miles norih of Naples. The luxury of Capua had a weakening effect on the soldiers of Hannibal during the Second Punie War (216 b.c.)i 9. Les ponts et chaussées, Civil engineering; lit., "bridges and highways."