to _8_ 19).

_9_ 14 _cheval de trompette:_ 'trumpeter's horse,' 'war-horse.'
_Trompette_ = 'trumpet,' 'trumpeter.'

_9_ 16 _gros sous:_ 'ten-centime pieces,' 'two-cent pieces.'
A five-centime piece (one cent) is called _un petit sou._

_9_ 17 _lord Seymour:_ Henry Seymour (1805-1859), an eccentric,
extravagant English lord who spent most of his life in Paris. He was well
known to the Parisian populace.

_9_ 18 _Roi des halles tarasconnaises:_ 'King of the Tarascon
Market-Place.' Francois de Vendome, duc de Beaufort (1616-1669), fearless,
presumptuous, coarse, was the idol of the rabble, by whom he was surnamed
_Roi des Halles_ (the great market of Paris).

_9_ 20 _bien sangle ... futaine:_ 'in his tight-fitting fustian
shooting-jacket. _Sangler_= 'to bind with a girth,' 'to strap'; cf. _un
officier sangle_ 'an officer with a tight-fitting coat on.'

_9_ 21 _se montrant ... ils se disaient:_ cf. note to _7_ 2.

_10_ 4 _pampas:_ 'pampas,' vast plains in Argentina, extending from the
Atlantic to the Andes.

_10_ 5 _faire ... casquette:_ _faire une battue_ = to beat (_battre_) the
woods or bushes for game. Transl. 'to go a-cap-hunting.'

_10_ 7 _A la longue, il y aurait eu_ (conditional anterior of _il y a_)
_de quoi:_ 'in the end there would have been wherewith,' 'if this
existence were continued long, it would have been enough.'

_10_ 10 _en vain s'entourait-il:_ cf. note to _5_ 32.

_10_ 13 _lectures romanesques:_ 'romantic readings.' The French for Engl.
'lecture' is _conference, causerie. Romanesque_ = 'romantic.' The French
_romantique_ is used in speaking of the Romantic School literary history,
and of landscapes.--_don Quichotte:_ hero of the celebrated novel "Don
Quixote," by Cervantes (1547-1616, cf. note to _39_ 24). Don Quixote, a
Spanish gentleman, has his head turned as a result of excessive reading of
romances, and, attended by his fat, vulgar squire, Sancho Panza, scours
Spain, righting wrongs and rescuing fair damsels, in the fashion of the
knights of old. Don Quixote was ever tireless and fearless, while Sancho
Panza disliked hard knocks and preferred a slothful life of ease and
plenty to the glorious career of privations which was the lot of the
knight errant. Tartarin de Tarascon combined the qualities of Don Quixote
and Sancho Panza; hence a terrible internal conflict of which we shall
read in chapter vi. This disconcerting complexity of character, which is
not confined to a Southerner if w