touchaient des appointements doubles : drew double pay

26. demoiselle de Saint-Armand. The de is part of the name and indicates an aristocratie ancestry.

27. tourmentée d'idées de giandeor et de mondanité : extravagantly amàitious of social eminence.

28. Bonne Maman. The household name of the eldest daughter of M. Joyeuse. The term is of ten used for grancTmatnan,

29. l'emprunt tunisien: the Tunisian loan, which Hemerlingue & Son were negotiadng for the Bey of Tunis.

30. le Turc. AU Daudet's bourgeois call the people of North Africa indiscriminately des Turcs, See Tartarin de TarascoUf page 28.