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Princess Margherita of Savoy (1851-1926), future Queen of Italy — then Princess of Piedmont. Marie has encountered her in Rome's carnival society. ↩
Mardi Gras: Shrove Tuesday — the last day of Carnival before Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent. ↩
Moccoli: small candles (lit. "wicks") — the traditional finale of Roman Carnival on the evening of Mardi Gras, in which everyone tries to extinguish their neighbours' candles while keeping their own alight, accompanied by cries of Senza moccolo! ("Without a candle!"). ↩
Feux de Bengale: Bengal lights — coloured chemical flares used for theatrical illumination, producing vivid red, green, or blue light. ↩
The "cremation of Carnival" (funerale del Carnevale): a mock funeral procession marking the death of Carnival on the last night, with an effigy burned or buried — a centuries-old Roman tradition. ↩
Jules Favre (1809-1880): French lawyer and republican statesman — famous for his impassioned, rhetorical oratory. Marie invokes him as a type of theatrical moral indignation. ↩
sensitive: Marie writes this word in English in the original French text. In English in the original. ↩
Coup de foudre: lit. "a thunderbolt" — the overwhelming, instantaneous experience of falling in love. See entry 21 February for Marie's self-analysis of this phenomenon. ↩