aiguille. Here the hand of a dial

23.— 4. garde-manger en surplomb. Reference to the disposition of French houses where the pantry on each floor stands out overhanging the court and thus shuts out the light from the narrow inner space. Translate: ‘five stories of overhanging pantries.”

9. panier de laiton. A familiar picture to those who have lived in Parisian houses.

14. Satyre, Sazyr, a woodland deity depicted as a creature with goatlike ears, pug-nose, short tail, and budding horns, and delighting in music, dancing, etc.

27. Savon de Marseille, a rough, common soap, manufactured in Marseilles and used for kitchen and laundry purposes.

24.— 7. Bible en estampes, a Bible composed merely of pictures accompanied by brief inscriptions.

25.—8. Fontainebleau, a small town in the department of Seine-et-Marne, south of Paris, famous for its palace of Francis I, its forest and its grapes.