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Page 87.—1. la Sarthe, a department in Western France formed with parts of the old provinces of Maine and Anjou and named from the main river passing through it.

2. la Lorraine, an old Eastern French province, the remains of the former kingdom of Lotharingia.

Page 88.— 1. les deux provinces annexées. Alsace (except the city of Belfort and its territory) and a part of Lorraine were ceded to Germany by the treaty of Francfort (1871).

2. la fête des Rois, the 7we/fthnight, celebrated on January 6. People celebrate it by inviting friends to take dinner with them. At dessert, a cake is served in which a bean or sometimes a small china doll has been concealed. (See Maupassant’s Ait Contes Choisis, p. 51, D. C. Heath & Co.) The person who gets it is elected king or queen according to the sex, and selects a partner, king or queen, as the case may be. Ilence the allusion, line 29: à la grande reine.

J. petit vin, /ight wine, — La Moselle, a river flowing through

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Eastern France and Germany; also a part of the old province of Lorraine.

Page 39.—1. comme, something like.