Mettre le couvert. To set the table

24. On rudoie ses gens. You must speak harshly to y our servants.

28. Mânes de ses dieux. Shades of her ancestors. 5. — 14. Vivoter. To live modestly.

17. Je ne me contenterais pas .... pour tout potage. I would not content myself, like the marquis, with only one cook (ail told). A play on words in the association of cuisinière with potage in the same sentence.