revendeuse à la toilette, old clothes ivoman

Page 48. — i. Larmorlière, another restaurateur of the time. 2. me, in me.

Page 49. — i. touchez-là, shake hands ; cf. slang Engl. : " Put it there."

Page 50. — I. prescrit, otttlawed, a légal term.

Page 51. — I. Drèsque = <^<?J ^«^ (Godef roy) ; hence équivalent to as soon as.

2. tout fin = entirely, this adverbial use ai fin is not uncommon in Old French.

3. dret = droit, exactly, correct; cf. étret = étroit, v. La Fontaine, Fables III, viii, 6; III, xvii, 2; IV, vi, 4.

Page* 52. — i. Scène IX. This scène, one of the most famous

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in the play, draws aside the curtain from the business methods of 'Ùx.Q financier of the old régime.

Pag'e 53. — i. Quincampoix, a short street, still in existence, running from the Tour Saint Jacques, adjacent to the Boulevard Sébastopol.

2. Valognes, a town of some 6000 inhabitants in Normandy, department of Manche.

Page 54. — i. au denier quatorze, at interest rate of one denier in fourteen, i.e. about seven per cent. This is an old-fashioned manner of calculating. The denier was worth about one-twelfth of a sou.

Page 66. — i. faible, weakness.

Page 67. — i . Tout de bon ? In eamest ?

Page 59. — i. je m'en rapporte à toi, I cotifide in y ou. 2. neveu à la mode de Bretagne, i.e. son of a cousin german ; first cousin once removed.