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Comment se fait-il, how is it, how does it happen

Page 147. — 1. Nous ne saurions, we cannot. 2. sans nous en douter, withoict (pur) suspecting it,

Page 148. — r. de façon à, in such a way as to.

Page 149. — 1. mais bien, but rather.

2. troglodytes, a formation based on Greek words meaning "cave" and " to enter," "creep into."

3. Jules César, Julius Cirsar (100-44 b.c.), the famous Roman gênerai, statesman, orator, and writer, author of the " Commentaries " on the Gallic war.

4. Dragonnades, name given to persécutions which the French Protestants suffered in the reign of Louis XIV. (after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685), so called because dragoons (French dragons) were employed to carry out the persécution.

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