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53 23 Tenons-nous bien: a phrase of warning to be on guard and ready, transl. 'ware Turks! Il: cf. note to 4 23. 54 1 Il y avait ... cherchait: 'for two long weeks the luckless Tartarin had been seeking. 54 6 ni plus ni moins que l'Opéra: 'just as the Opera does. The Opéra is the famous Opera House in Paris, where a great masked ball is given every year.
54 7 de province: 'provincial' All France outside of Paris is disdainfully designated by Parisians as la province. 54 9 chicards: 'dandies' debardeurs: men who unload wood, 'stevedores. Conventionalized dandy and stevedore costumes were made popular as early as the thirties by the clever cartoonist Gavarni and were seen at all masked balls.
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