Au secret, solitary confinement

30. Otaïti, the largest of the Society Islands, called Tahiti or Otaheite. At the time of the discovery of the island in 1767 the natives were supposed to lead a beautiful idyllic life, and the island is very appropriately chosen by Camille Desmoulins as the seat of his idéal republic.

31. Mon bon loulou ! ma poule / words of endearment applied to children or young women. The féminine of the first expression is /«^î^/ci'/i?. For the second, literally " my hen,"

compare the English analagous expression, " my ducky." On p. 242 the Word loup is also used familiarly as a term of endearment, although the literal meaning is wolf.