90 2 marseillais: 'dialect of Marseilles.' Not only did she know French, but even Tartarin's own dialect. The Provençal language comprises many dialects; that of Tarascon does not differ greatly from that of Marseilles.
90 3 Quand je vous disais: 'what did I tell you about ...?'
90 9 s'est ... sac: 'let himself be caught red-handed'; cf. note to 7 25.
90 11 à l'ombre: 'in prison' (lit. 'in the shade'), slang.--maison centrale: prison to which prisoners who have been condemned to more than one year of detention are sent; transl. 'jail.'
90 12 tenez! 'hold!' 'let me see!' Cf. note to 70 6.
90 14 C'est donc ça: colloquial for c'est donc pour ça, 'that's why.'--ne ... ville: cf. 57 1-6.
90 17 sans quoi: 'otherwise,' lit. 'without which.'
90 18 votre histoire avec le muezzin: cf. the passage beginning 63 3.
90 20 d'en face: 'over there,' 'across the way'; cf. note to 85 13.