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Italian: "This one is American." In Italian in the original. ↩
Ma queue: the train of a fashionable dress — the most expensive element, a clear display of wealth. ↩
La loge des chasses: the hunting box — a theater box shared by aristocratic sportsmen, and also their regular gathering place on the Corso. ↩
Plobster: Marie's own word, in use since 1874, for the smart, rich, well-born men of society. Asked in August 1874 how Doria could be a plobster «n'étant ni gros ni rouge» (being neither fat nor red), she answered «parce qu'il est extrêmement noble et riche» (because he is extremely noble and rich) (023.0210). ↩
A Watteau style: evoking the 18th-century painter Antoine Watteau's fête galante scenes — pastoral, graceful, slightly theatrical. ↩