ces âmes simples : note

un soldat simple, ' a simple-minded soldier.' un simple soldat, ' a private. '

85. 3. les esprits forts : generall}' 'freethinkers,' ' sceptics ' ; hère

rather ' those free from superstition," — ironically, of course. ,, 6. le jotir de l'émancipation : see note, p. 52 1. 22.

au fond, ' at the bottom,' ' on the whole, ' ' after ail' ; à fond, ' thoroughly. '