UN RÉVEILLON DANS LE MARAIS

1. eau de Seltz. Seltzer-water is simply water charged with carbonic acid, like our soda-water.

2. le Marais. Le Marais^ in the extrême eastem part of old Paris, near the Place de la Bastille, was the fashionable quarter of the city in the seventeenth and the first half of the eighteenth centuries. The Place des Vosges, formerly Place Royale, occupies the center of the district.