Endnotes + 

A sort of fish. ↩ + 

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

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

Unripping a rip. ↩ + 

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