Note 16 — BOOK V

Béranger: La Vivandière, 1-7, not quite correctly quoted. In the original, the vivandière is called "Catin:" Chateaubriand substitutes "Javotte," a favourite name for an inn-servant in France, and alters the last lines so as to avoid the rhyme to "Catin" at the end. To attempt a rough translation:

"I'm the vivandière so gay, Javotte I'm called: that's handy; I sell, I drink, I give away My wine, my rum, my brandy. I'm light of foot and I give a wink, Chink chink, chink chink, chink chink, chink chink, Clink, clink, chink."—T.