le four chauffe pour moi, I’m going to have a bad time

32. Je fis Pesprit fort, J pretended not to be superstitious.

Page 92.— 1. Vive l’Empereur! The usual battle cry of Napoleon’s armies.

5. dais, canopy, should be clearly distinguished from English dais, ‘raised platform.’ The word originally meant ‘table,’ particularly a state table raised on a platform and covered by a canopy.