ourdisseuses : warpers

13. tambourins: drums. The Provençal drum is very long and of small diameter ; the tambourinaire carries it hung from his neck, beating it with a single stick held in his right hand, while with his left he plays on a three-holed fife, fifre. See Mon Tambourinaire in Trente Ans de Paris.

14. sur le pont d'Avignon. CÎhe of the most widely-known of the popular songs of France is ** Sur le pont d'Avignon^ on y danse^ on y danse."

15. Comtat. Le Comtat Venaissin was a small tract of country about Avignon ; it belonged to the Popes from 1228 to 1791.

16. Boniface. The introduction of this name is an intentional anachronism. Boniface VIII. died in 1303, and Boniface IX. held his court at Rome from 1390 to 1404.

17. tireur de garance : madder-gatherer ; a boy employed to pull up stalks of madder.

18. grand viguier: grand vicar ; Latin, vicarius; the chief adminbtrative civil office of the city.

19. Yvetot — Jeanneton. In allusion to Bëranger*s Le Roi d* Yvetot

" Il était un roi d' Yvetot, Peu connu dans l'histoire, Se levant tard, se couchant tôt, Dormant fort bien sans gloire ; Et couronné par Jeanneton D'un simple bonnet de coton."