• On the boughs hang three bodies of unequal merits: Dismas and Gesmas, between is the divine power. Dismas seeks the heights, Gesmas, unhappy man, the lowest regions; the highest power will preserve us and our effects. If you repeat this verse, you will not lose your things by theft. ↩
• The Good Quince. ↩
• Instead of porte coch’re and porte b’tarde . ↩
• Town-Hall. ↩
• Jesus-my-God-bandy-leg’down with the moon! ↩
• Chicken: Slang allusion to the noise made in calling poultry. ↩
• Louis XVIII is represented in comic pictures of that day as having a pear-shaped head. ↩
• Tuck into your trousers the shirttail that is hanging out. Let it not be said that patriots have hoisted the white flag. ↩
• In order to reestablish the shaken throne firmly on its base, soil (Des solles), greenhouse and house (Decazes) must be changed. ↩
• Suspendu : suspended. Pendu : hung. ↩
• L’Aile : wing. ↩
• The slang term for a painter’s assistant. ↩