UN RÉVEILLON DANS LE MARAIS

130.--23. vieux, vieux. The .repetition of an adjective

for emphasis is much more common in Italian than in French.

132.--3. une Diane... avec un croissant au front. A

conventional manner of representing the goddess.

4. triolets. In versification this name (_triolet_) is given to a

poem of eight lines, of which the first is repeated after the third, and

both the first and second after the sixth, it is a development of the

Old French _rondeau_; in music, as it is here used, the name is given

to a group of three notes which, in a measure of 3/4 time, produces the

effect of 6/8 time.

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