pour de bon, ea//y, seriously

8. L’Aigle or Laïigle: a little town west of Paris in the department of Orne. It has a beautiful forest.

9. Auvergne, a mountainous and formerly volcanic region in the central part of France.

18. Luxembourg, here refers to the beautiful garden that surrounds the palace ‘and is crossedevery day by hundreds of school children.

26. pensionnaire dans un lycée. In the lycées and colleges of France there are several classes of students according as to whether they board and live in the school, take only one or two meals or simply attend recitations. The first class is composed of pensionnaires ot internes; the second of demi-pensionnaïires ; the third of externes. Many authors have dwelt at length on the miserable life of the poor pupils shut up in those educational barracks and submitted to the severe discipline and claustral regime of the #/ernat.