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signalement, description issued by the police for the identification of fugitives from justice.
avait le temps. This bears out the regret of Léonie, [p. 2].
romanesque, romantic. Note that while at the date of this play, 1851, romanticism was no longer the fashion for men in Paris, it was still thought attractive in young girls, especially among the landed aristocracy. See my edition of "Le Gendre de monsieur Poirier," p. 46, note 3.