fourneaux économiques, soup-kitchens

4. nous y sommes . . . poche. We always kave to go down into our own pockets ; lit., " We are in thèse cases (minus money) out of our own pockets."

5. 92, i. e., 1792, the date which generally stands for the whole of the great French Révolution. See page 48, note 2.

Page 98, — traité en pays conquis = (the authorities) had hadtheir way (i. e., done what they pleased) with. . .

Page 99. — i . The French peasants use the euphemism monsieur for that unclean but useful animal, the pig.

2. le bouquet, the climaxy from the bunch of rockets with which a display of fireworks is apt to conclude.

Page 100. — I. j'vas, a form ofy^ vaisy confined to peasant speech. 2, gavroches, street Arabs.