fourneaux économiques, soup-kitchens

4. nous y sommes . . . poche. We always hâve to go down into our own pockeU ; 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. . .

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

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

Page 100. — I. j'vas, a form ofy^ vais^ confined to peasant speech.