She is beloved and happy, and Leon will have nothing to reproach himself with if she does not have plenty of children.
_Bourdonnel, August_, 1861.
FINIS.
NOTES TO THE MAN WITH THE BROKEN EAR.
NOTE 1, page 69 .-- _Black butterflies_, a French expression that we might tastefully substitute for _blue devils_.
NOTE 2, page 72 .-- _The 15th of August_ is the Emperor's birthday.
NOTE 3, page 85 .-- _Centigrade_, of course.
NOTE 4, page 101 .-- Fougas' surprise is explained by the well-known fact that Napoleon was obliged to forbid the playing of _Partant pour la Syrie_ in his armies, on account of the homesickness and consequent desertion it occasioned.
NOTE 5, page 118 .-- _Jeu de Paume_ (tennis-court), is the name given to the meeting of the third-estate (_tiers-etat_) in 1789, from the locality where it took place.
NOTE 6, page 161 .-- The English used by the two young noblemen is M.
About's own.

It is certainly such English as Frenchmen would be apt to speak, and it is as fair to attribute that fact to M.About's fine sense of the requirements of the occasion, as to lack of familiarity with our language.
NOTE 7, page 164 .-- It is not without interest to note that M.About used the English word _gentlemen_.
NOTE 8, page 166 .-- _War against tyrants! Never, never, never shall the Briton reign in France!_ NOTE 9, page 214 .-- The original here contains a neat little conceit, which cannot be translated, but which is too good to be lost.

The French for daughter-in-law is _belle fille_, literally "beautiful girl." To Fougas' address "_Ma belle fille!_" Mme.

Langevin replies: "_I am not beautiful, and I am not a girl._" It suggests the similar retort received by Faust from Marguerite, when he addressed her as _beautiful young lady!_ NOTE 10, page 230 .-- The Translator has intentionally used both the singular and the plural of the second person in Fougas' apostrophe to Clementine, as it seemed to him naturally required by the variations of the sentiment.
NOTE 11, page 248 .-- The reader will bear in mind Marshal Leblanc's allusion to condemned horses..