pétarades, see page 45, note

7. le golfe de la Napoule, the gulf or bay of La Napovle along the coast of Var on the Riviera.

Page 48. 1. U CoUe-Noire (Collis-Nigra), the Black HiU.

2. Robert Macaire, a popular character in a once popular drama, one of the first models of détective plays, V Auberge des Adrets (The Inn of the Adrets) produced in 1823, and the work of three French playwrights, Benjamin Autier, Saint Amand, and Polyanthe.

3. on le hisse sur un grand diable de mulet, they hoost him onîo a hig, strapping mule.

4. On ne doit pas amasser de rentes dans ce métier, it must he hard to make a fortune {an income) in a profession like that.

Page 49. 1. Je rassemblai mes forces, the narrator, who recalls very much Daudet's Tartarin^ is boasting of having escaped from a holdup with only one look at the burglar.

2. Avignon . . . Nice, Avign^on, in the département of Vau^duse, was from 1309 to 1377 the résidence of some of the Popes, during the schism which divided the Catholic church into \wol^ç\Àsyûa, Ttsa^^v^'ss.

palace can be seen at Avignon. Nice is a famous winter resort on the Riviera, in the département of Alpes^MarUimes.

3. Je demande l'usage, etc., / question him to know the use of that extravagant ap'pendage, "Pricte," answers philosophicaUy my friend, To adom their teams with extravagant attires for pride, what modem sociologists would call ''conspicuous waste and honorific display/' adds a new characteristic feature to Clemenceau's portrait of the Provençals.

4. un grand gars vigoureux, etc., a taU, robustlad vyith a reddish face, thick hair, défiant looks, and the grip of a rustic.