baccalauréat: the first university degree. Although

passed before a jury of University professors it is prepared for in the secondary schools. There are several kinds of baccalauréal: the baccalauréat ès sciences the baccalauréat ès lettres etc.

118. — 7. aux eaux, ‘at the watering places’; this expression applies only to places having mineral waters.

11. Je me relevai . .. du vœu: when J was gray-haired J absolved myself from the vow of ...

120. —3. le bas Maine: the lower part of the province of Maine; this province forms today the departments of. Sarthe and of Mayenne.