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28. échafaudés : dressed high. It was the fashion between 1778 and 1785 for ladies to hâve their hair dressed to stand a foot and often two feet above their heads.

29. paniers: hoop petticoats. Thèse were in vogue at Paris at various times during the eighteenth century.

30. Ahl mon Dieul ils vont mettre le feul Good heavens! they will set the buildings onfire.