aplomb : self-confident bluntness

5. pourpoint troué : coat in holes. The pourpoint was a close-fitting jacket, the English doublet.

6. dans les pages du sire ApoUo: in the service of Master Apollo. ApoUo was the god of lyric poetry.

7. écus à la rose : rose crowns ; coins of médiéval France, bearing the figure of a rose.

8. Brébant. A popular Parisian restaurant on the Boulevard Poissonnière.