il y a vingt-quatre heures que je n'ai bu : mark the

idiomatic use of ne without pas, in speaking of time, after il y a . . que and depuis que, %vhen the verb is in a compound tense : il avait beaucoup grandi depuis que je ne r avais vu.

46. 3. que j'avais vus figurer: why does the participle agrée?

cf. p. 4 1. 30, and p. 42 1. 9.

,, 10. de vous faire entrevoir, ' to give you an idea of ; entrevoir, ' to see but dimly,' ' to catch a glimpse of. ' Cf. — entre-bâillé, 'ajar. ' entr oiivrir, ' to half-open. ' ,, 12. en sonime, ' on the whole,' ' after ail.' Somme toute is used in the same sensé. Somme, masc. , ' nap. ' Contrast — faire la somme, ' to sum up. ' faire un somme, ' to take a nap. ' ,, 14. moyen âge, ' Middle Ages' ; âge moyen, ' middle âge.' ,, 17. tel croisé, ' many a crusader. ' The crusades took place from the end of the eleventb till the latter half of the thirteenth century. The crusaders founded a Latin kingdom in Palestine, but the capture of Acre by the Sultan of Egj'pt in 1291 put an end to it.

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