Teutobochus: fanciful name

853. — 13. conseiller général, a member of the conses! général an assembly elected by universal suffrage in every department to manage the affairs of the department. A conseil général has a certain politicalimportance in so far as its members are called upon to elect the senators. administrateur — #rwsfee.

84. — 2. huitième préparatoire. This used to be the lowest class of the classical course. Pupils of nine or ten years of age were instructed in the elements of Latin, history, geography, arithmetic. The author pictures here the Co//ège Sianislas, a denominational school still in existence, where he studied in his boyhood. Part of the staff was composed of laymen and part of priests. Ù

22. Mérovée. It was common, forty years ago, to teach children the names of all the kings of France including the ancestors of Clovis of whom little, if anything, is really known. Anatole France satirizes this absurd method which went so far as to put history into rhymes to facilitate the work of memory.

25. Lutèce. The name given, at the time of the Romans, to the city that is now Paris.

85. — 10. langue . .. chat, 4 give up guessing. Colloquialism.