Scène IV
[30], 8. Ayant l’air de chercher: ‘Apparently trying to recollect.’
8. Le cardinal-ministre: Fleury. See note to p. 10, l. 15.
[31], 25. tenir au courant: ‘keep informed.’
[32], 9. l’enceinte de Paris: ‘the Paris walls’: really a circle of fortifications immediately surrounding the city.
14. raison de plus: ‘all the better.’
Scène V
[33], 16. qui est remontée: ‘who has gone to the rear of the stage.’
21. à plusieurs reprises: ‘repeatedly.’
22. redescendant le théâtre: ‘returning to the front of the stage.’