toasts: toasts

9. grand portail: great archway, leading from the street to the court of the house.

10. hôtel ci-devant de Nesmond : former résidence ofthe de Nesmond family.

1 1. siphons. The siphon is a glass bottle holding about two quarts, and having a pewter cap with thumb-cock and delivery-pipe.

12. fait de la lumière à toute la rue: Ughtens up the whole street. The street is very narrow.

13. brodées, ouvragées. The light stone of which Paris is built is easily carved when fresh from the quarry, and ail houses of any pretension to élégance are plentifully omamented with floral designs in relief. See encadrées de guirlandes below.

14. la poulie du grenier. A pulley in a timber projecting from the eaves, used for hoisting goods into the upper stories.

1 5. je ne sais quel grand air : a certain impressive air.