mettre sous presse, ^oing to press

3. la question, etc. Question hère means torture^ which could be either ** ordinaire" or ** extraordinaire *\ according to the pain inflicted. Judicial torture was abolished in 1789, hence the expression ^* rétablie** in the next Une.

Page 104* — I. police locale hère means the school authorities.

2. à grand orchestre, witk many démonstrations of joy, The expression seems somewhat out of place hère since the whole affair seems to hâve passed off very quietly.

3. Banco, Banquo^ whose ghost appears in Shakespeare's " Macbeth ".

Page 106. — I. Anacharsis. The référence is to a famous work by Abbé Barthélémy (i 716-1795) entitled ^^ Voyage du jeune Ana^ charsis " which had an enormous popularity.

Page 107« — I. YOiz de stentor, stentorian voice, According to Homer (Iliad v. 785) Stentor's voice was equal to those of 50 ordinary men combined.

Page 108. — I. TOUS l'dchappez belle, you hâve had a narrow escape,