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The Chiaia, a fashionable seafront promenade in Naples. ↩
Vulgo (Latin): commonly known as, in ordinary parlance. ↩
Étincelle ("Spark"), a society gossip columnist. ↩
Cailloux du Rhin: literally "Rhine pebbles" — paste rhinestones, fashionable costume jewellery of the period. ↩
Cocottes: courtesans or kept women of the demi-monde. ↩
A pun: conservateur means both "curator" (of a museum) and "one who preserves" — applied here to Janvier as the keeper of Mme de Marcilly's crumbling edifice. ↩
Gavini, the Corsican father of Adeline Gavini. ↩
Gavini's pronouncement — "ce n'était pas empoté" — is his attempt at an art-critical compliment, using the jargon clumsily. ↩