voilà ... à Roger, that is what Roger should have

7. une nouvelle couche, term applied by Gambetta to new people,

8. Ce soir ... la place, This evening I shall carry off the place,

9. Mais c'est le pied à Pétrier . . . donc I but this is the foot in the stirrups aunt; do understand !

Page 19. — 1. qui n'a pas . . . parierais, who has not yet so much as committed a single escapadcy I would wager,

2. il sera de l'Institut, he will be {member) of the Institute. A national association founded by Cardinal Richelieu in 1 635, for the care and cultivation of literature, science, philosophy aitd the fine arts. It has five departments, called academies, named as follows, and each having its own organization : L'Académie Française, L'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, L'Académie des Sciences, L'Académie des Beaux-

Arts, L'Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques. Members art elected by ballot. See n. 3, p. 12 and 11. 27, 28, 29, p. 6.

3. la Chambre (of Deputies). The French parliament is called the National Assembly, and consists of two bodies, the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.