NOTES
[1] The French word huissier means a sheriff’s officer, or a person whose business it is to serve writs, processes, and legal documents generally. The word “process-server” must not be understood in its colloquial English sense, for in France this business is sometimes a lucrative one.—Translator.
[2] Coules, bons vins; femmes, deignez sourire.
[3] Toujours lui! lui partout! ou brulante ou glacée, L’image de l’Arnoux.
[4] Ah! j’ai l’y ri, j’ai l’y ri. Dans ce gueusard de Paris!
[5] About £1,350.—Translator.
[6] A little over three miles.—Translator.
[7] Mondor was a celebrated Italian charlatan, who, in the seventeenth century, settled in Paris and made a large fortune.—Translator.
[8]
“Elle reparaîtra, la terrible Assemblée,
Dont, après quarante ans, votre tête est troublé
