6 10 qui rendait: 'dispensing,' see note to 55 7.--Nemrod doublé de Salomon: 'a Nimrod and a Solomon at the same time.' Doubler 'to line'; un manteau doublé de fourrure 'a fur-lined coat.' For Nimrod, "a mighty hunter before the Lord," see Genesis x, 8-9; for Solomon as unerring judge, I Kings iii, 28.
6 chapter heading Nan! dialectal form of non! See 8 13-14.
6 13 Ce qui ... de romances: lit. 'what ... of ballads'; transl. 'the number of ballads that ...' Note that romance = 'ballad,' roman = 'novel,' 'romance.' See Engl. dict. for etymology.
6 14 c'est à n'y pas croire: 'it passes belief,' lit. 'it is enough to not believe it'; cf. note to 2 2. Croire à, y croire, cf. note to 2 29.
6 18 cela se sait: cf. note to 5 23.
6 23 receveur de l'enregistrement: 'recorder ' (of deeds and various transactions).
6 24 si j'étais-t-invisible: the non-etymological t is inserted to avoid hiatus, the s of étais being unpronounced: cf. Malbrough s'en va-t-en guerre. This error is common in the speech of the uneducated classes. --n'me: the e of ne is omitted as in conversational French.
7 3 on se réunit: see next note.--on se les chante: 'they sing them (the ballads) to one another.' Note se = '(to) one another.' Nous, vous, se, are used as reflexive or reciprocal objects, direct or indirect ('ourselves' or 'each other,' 'to ourselves' or 'to each other' etc.), cf. 9 21, 16 29, 93 8. Se is used as a reciprocal pronoun several times in this paragraph.