La tzigane. Another name for gypsy

Page 199. — z. La roulotte. A kind of wagon used by gypsies.

Page 200. — 1. Rien . . . chiquenaude ... : the slightest touch makes it tinkle. Une chiquenaude : a fillip.

Page 201. — x. Ne . . . sang: don' t fret, donUworry.

a. Il ... gueuses : he has squandered the tnoney on bad women. Gueux: poor, beggar, ragamufnn. The origin of the word is uncertain. Gueux was the name adopted by the league of Flemish nobles organized in 1566, to resist the introduction of the Inquisition into the Low Countries by Philip II. It had been previously given to them in contempt, and was afterwards borne by their follôwers in the succeeding war.

Page 203. — 1. Suzie et Bettina Percival. The two heroines of the well-known and charming novel of Ludovic Halévy, called L'abbé Constantin.