Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses/Proteus/044

Annotations
Mon fils   (French) My son.

Un coche ensablé   (French) A coach stuck in the sand. Stephen adapts the phrase from an essay by Louis Veuillot, Le Vrai poète Parisien (The True Parisian Poet), in his collection Les Odeurs de Paris (The Smells of Paris). Veuillot is criticizing Gautier's Étude (Study), his funeral oration for the German poet Heinrich Heine.