Reconnoissance. ■ — Now spelt reconnaissance

207. Commissionaire. — This man-of-all-work, so common in France (there being about twelve thousand of them in Paris alone), not having any existence with us, we can only designate by his most fréquent duty, as " errand-portei\"

For a full account of his duties, we would refer to Sir Francis Head's " Fagot of French Sticks," — a book remarkable not only for the amount of information the author was able to collect, during the short period of his stay in Paris (which was but little more than three weeks), but for its justice to the French, its humor, and the author's deep insight into the character of the présent Emperor, at a time when the world was little disposed to look upon him as anything more than a shallow-brained usurper, whose career must, of necessity, be a brief one.

208. Il vient par le diligence. — " H. " and "le," to be grammatical, should evidently be " elle " and " la." The error is, of course, intentional, it being a very fréquent one with the English in speaking French.