Bataille de dames
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[Footnote 145: #signalement#, description issued by the police for
the identification of fugitives from justice.]
[Footnote 146: #avait le temps#. This bears out the regret of Léonie,
p. 2, line 16.]
[Footnote 147: #romanesque#, romantic. Note that while at the date
of this play, 1851, romanticism was no longer the fashion for men in
Paris, it was still thought attractive in young girls, especially among
the landed aristocracy. See my edition of "Le Gendre de monsieur
Poirier," p. 46, note 3.]