péniche, &ar^6. — Temorquenr^ tug

13. balaye plaisamment sa vallée citadine, gently sweeps the city in its vaUey with a fine eddying hreeze.

14. le cadre automnal, the avlumnal scenery, or background. Un cadre means, literally, a f rame.

15. au chevet de Notre-Dame, opposite the apaes of Notre-Dame. It was a tradition and rule in the building of cathedrals that the apses should face the rising sun in the East as a symbol of Christ, ''the Sun of Justice/' being resurrected from death. Notre-Dame, the cathedral of Paris, in its présent form (not forgetting a great many modem restorations) was erected for the most part between 1163 and 1230.

Page 54. 1. l'imposante grisaille, the imposing gray waU. A grisaille means literally a painting done mostly in grayish colors.