Tu vas te déchaîner contre moi, Marine, Remporter

you are going to Jly at me, Marine, to get angry.

Page 14.-1. du dernier galant, i.e. extremely gallant. Expressions of this sort were common in the affected literary circles of the seventeenth century ; cf. Molière, Précieuses Ridicules, se. iv, Madelon : " Ah ! mon père, ce que vous dites là est du dernier bourgeois." Cf. also : ibid, se. ix, Cathos : " Ah! mon Dieu ! voilà qui est poussé dans le dernier galant."

2. Voiture, Vincent Voiture (i 598-1 648), one of the original forty members of the French Academy ; one of the most brilliant writers of vers de société and wits who frequented the salon of Madame de Rambouillet.

3. Pavillon, E. Pavillon (i 632-1 705), a minor writer of fashionable literature.

Page 15. — I. i^xvciVSiXS%hviéxB.Vi3i^\.t..farmers gênerai ; fermier is, of course, a revenue farmer.

Page 16. — I. pied-plat, a common fellow, a nobody. A high arch under the foot is sometimes considered a sign of aristocratie breeding.

Page 17. — I . L'excellent sujet ! What a fine fellow.

Page 18. — I. C'est voler au coin d'un bois, ifs nothing short of highway robbery.

Page 20. — I. soubrette, the vivacious serving-maid of French comedy ; the soubrette is one of the stock characters of the Parisian stage.