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3. s'égare dans les détours des reconstructions sociales, loses himself in the mazes of social reconstruction. .

4. Les petits marchands, the small retail dealers (who peddle their goods on the streets).

5. Le bon sergot, the good "cop." Sergot is a slang déformation of sergent (sergeant) for sergent de ville, police officer. — ^Le bon sergot fatigué, etc., the good cop, tired ofhis useless guard, gently bids himself move on. The policeman being left almost alone has now only himself to address with the traditional injunction of the Paris sergent de ville: "Circulezr *'Move on.''

6. aux Américains qui font Paris, to the Americans who **are doing*' Paris.

7. aux Allemands qui viennent reconnaître, to the Germons who came on a reconnoitering expédition.

8. L'aimable promenade du fleuve, the pleasant course of the river, howeverj remains astir.

9. De Bercy au Point-du-Jour, Bercy and Point-dii-Jour are two localities in the suburbs of Paris. The Seine river enters Paris at Bercy and leaves the city at Point-du-Jour. The distance between thèse places is about nine miles.

10. la grande coulée verte glisse, etc., the wide, green flood slips its pleasurahle and walery caress àUmg the stone haxik of its flaming hanks.

11. étreignant sa Citéf winding around and close to the City. The Cité is the name of the oldest and once central part of the city of Paris. It is on an island between two branches of the Seine.