--1. =Sac à procès=, lawyer's bag or satchel.
--2. The =livre= was the standard of value in France until 1795, when it
was replaced by the =franc= of nearly equal value.
--3. =The Duke of Choiseul= (1719-1785), a celebrated French statesman,
was prime minister under Louis XV.
--4. =suite=, _perseverance_.
--5. =la guerre d'Amérique=. The war between the English and French for
the possession of North America (1752-1760) is referred to.
--6. =prêteur sur gages=, pawn-broker.
--7. His thoughts and passions were mild like the light of the moon.
--8. =Sisyphe=, _Sisyphus_, a well-known character in mythology.
--9. =Je m'en doutais=, _I suspected it._
--10. Voltaire in "Discours en vers sur l'homme."
--11. =on peut s'en trouver bien tant que=, _one may fare well enough as
long as, etc._
--12. =termes de basoche=, legal phraseology. _La basoche_ was, an
association of lawyers' clerks.
--13. =Se dérangerait-il=, _Could he be behaving badly?_
--14. The "Trappists" were a religious order whose rules prescribed
perpetual silence except in case of necessity.
--15 =la Visitation=, a celebrated convent in the southern part of
Paris.