Halles centrales, Paris, the main market in Paris

Page 46. 1. Pime de mes promenades électorales dans le Var, this story is an épisode of one of Glemenceau's pohtical campaigns in the département of Var^ which he represented as a deputy and then as a senator in the French chambers.

2. Maures . . . Estérel, two ranges of mountains running parallel to the Mediterranean in Provence.

3. avec ses promontoires de porph3rre ou de grès rouge, xvith its cliffs of porphyry or of red sandstone^ whose gleaming refractions of light seem to set the sea afire.

4. avec ses montagnes pelées ou moutonnantes des pins noirs, with its mountains hare or undulated xmth hlack pines.

5. mistral, the northwest wind as it blows in Provence. Mistral or maistral in. Provençal dialect Cmagislrdl m Tûoàenv Yx^ivch'^ means

eapitàlf principal, notorious. For its violence, as it blows through the Rhône valley to the sea, the mistral certainly deserves its name of a maater wind.