NOTES

5. Ghosts

1. The mad monk who assassinated King Henry IV.

2. Or a pun on it: “juniper” in French is genièvre.

14. The Flower Market

1. Arnaque means, roughly, “swindle,” which gives you some idea what the demolition man was thinking of.

Afterword

1. See Marie Thébaud’s excellent article, “À la recherche d’Y,” in the Revue nantaise des études du XIXème siècle, 54.

2. Translated as The Facts of Winter (San Francisco: Paraffin Press, 2001).