Esselle = ‘ aisselle

1 2. here, not, as before, ‘ silk’ in general, but some silk garment.

23. ‘ With a tickling in his throat,’ that is to say, chuckling over his

exploit ; or else ‘ careful of his throat’ = afraid of the gallows.

33. 1. Donner le saut is probably akin to the more modem idiom

‘faire faire le saut,’ to make a person change his employment.

3. Camille Desmoulins is said to hâve made the same pun on his

way to the scaffold.