36 30 un bon gros vivant de Marseillais: a bon vivant is 'a man who lives well,' 'a jolly fellow' On de see note to 1 12.
37 3 il se fit: cf. note to 5 23.
37 7 Machine en avant! machine en arrière! 'Go ahead! back her!' Machine = 'engine'.
37 9 Machine, stop! 'stop her!' 'The verb stopper (borrowed from English stop) is regularly used of engines. Stop in machine, stop! is an imperative taken directly from the English.
37 10 plus rien: cf. notes to 13 1 and 4 23--Rien que: cf. 1 17.
37 19 Alger la blanche: 'Algiers,' capital of Algeria, about 500 miles from Marseilles. For the epithet blanche, see next note.
37 22 Meudon: a town on the Seine between Paris and Versailles. The white houses of Algiers sloping towards the sea look like the washing of a laundress spread out on the grassy hill which at Meudon descends to the Seine. Étalage means a 'spreading out,' as of things for sale; then, by extension, the objects displayed. Cf. note to 69 15.
37 26 à ses côtés: 'at his (Tartarin's) side'; note the plural côtés; cf. aux flancs du paquebot 93 19.