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[Footnote 140: #Et d'un#, _There's one_.]
[Footnote 141: #personnage muet#, _man who doesn't count_.
Technically one who appears on the stage but does not speak.]
[Footnote 142: #cour prévôtale#, _provost court_, or "court martial,"
"a criminal tribunal temporarily established, and judging without
appeal" (Littré).]
[Footnote 143: #bord#, _party, side,_ or _way of thinking_. See also
dictionary.]
[Footnote 144: #notre classe#. This is a delightful touch.
Montrichard, having been republican and bonapartist, now chooses to
regard himself as one of the original aristocracy.]
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[Footnote 145: #signalement#, _description_ issued by the police for
the identification of fugitives from justice.]
[Footnote 146: #avait le temps#. This bears out the regret of Léonie,
p. 2, line 16.]
[Footnote 147: #romanesque#, _romantic_. Note that while at the date
of this play, 1851, romanticism was no longer the fashion for men in
Paris, it was still thought attractive in young girls, especially among
the landed aristocracy. See my edition of "Le Gendre de monsieur
Poirier," p. 46, note 3.]
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[Footnote 148: #pour acquit de conscience#, _to ease
my conscience_.]
[Footnote 149: #placards#, cupboards with a suggestion of
hiding-chambers, such as were built in the thick walls and enormous
chimneys (#cheminées#) of many ancient houses both on the Continent
and in England.]
[Footnote 150: #garçons de ferme#, _farm-hands_.--#hommes de
peine#, _laborers_, here perhaps the stable-boys and grooms.]
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[Footnote 151: That is, _friends whose lives depend on his life_.]
#Page 56.# [Footnote 152: The humor is the same here as p. 50, line
26.]
[Footnote 153: #une malheureuse ... courage#, _a poor, faithless
coward_.]