allume : lights the altar candies

63. enragés de tambourins : crazy drums. For a similar use of de, see La Belle Nivernaise, chap. 4, note 34.

64. le sire de Védène : Master Védène. See Lettres de Mon Moulin, chap. I, note 2.

65. prit son élan : gathered himself up ; i. e. for an effective kick.

66. Tiens I attrape, bandit I There ! take thaty you scatnp !

67. elle vous lui détaoha: she let fly at htm. Vous is hère merely an ethical dative, as in the £nglish, " There's a magnifîcent mountain for you."

1. Champs-Elysées. The broad Avenue des Champs-Elysées, the best-known promenade in Paris, runs with a gentle ascent a mile and a third north-west from the Place de la Concorde to the Place de l'Étoile. Its lower half is bordered by parks and concert-gardens. In the center of the Place de l'Etoile, so called from the fact that a dozen fine avenues radiate from it, stands the imposing Arc de Triomphe, built in commémoration of the victories of the first Napoléon.

2. Paris assiégé. War was declared by France against Prussia July 19, 1870. The Germans gained a séries of victories in Northeastern France, Wissembourg, August 4, Reichshoffen, August 6, and Sedan, which resulted in the capture of Napoléon III., September i. Three weeks later they had completely invested Paris. The city was forced by the lack of provisions to capitulate January 28, 187 1, and the Germans made their formai entry March i.