cartons, pasteboard boxes

10. partant, consequently. Compare La Fontaine’s Zes Animaux malades de la peste L. VII fable I.

Les tourterelles se fuyaient :

Plus d'amour, partant plus de joie!

17. shako, a stiff high military cap with a peak in front and usually a pompon at the front part of the flat crown: still used in France and in some regiments of the United States.

20. chinés, so called because the method of weaving the threads so as to make special designs came from China: speckled.