Endnotes

1. A sort of fish. ↩

2. Buis, “whence” (says Balzac) “the word buisson,” shrub or bush. ↩

3. Balzac has hannetons, cockchafers. It was an old joke that soy was made of cockroaches. —⁠Translator ↩

4. Unripping a rip. ↩

5. A legal form by which French sons can reduce the obstinacy of recalcitrant parents when they refuse their consent to a marriage. ↩