[40] se fit grandelette, was half-grown.
[41] lui en savaient le meilleur gré du monde, liked her ever so much the better for it.
[42] Notice the different ways in which about is rendered in French; after savoir by de, after entendre by à.
[43] sculpteurs allemands de la Renaissance; the chief of these are Adam Kraft, 1480-1507, Peter Vischer, 1460-1530, with his five sons, and above all Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528. Nuremberg was the principal field of their labors.
[44] chapeau à plumes; in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, only persons of noble rank were permitted to wear plumes in their hats.
[45] il y était toujours pour elle, he was always at home to her.
[46] pourquoi je vous ferais des mystères, why I should not be perfectly frank with you.
[47] je n'en parle que pour mémoire, I simply mention it, it is hardly worth counting.
[48] me suffira pour vivre, will be sufficient for me to live on.
[49] l'École polytechnique, see note #1.