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3. T’as mal pensé; dialectal for: 7% as mal pensé. * Translate: You are mistaken ; you are wrong.

Page 50.— 1. rire jaune (common expression), “to laugh reluctantly,” “on the wrong side of the mouth?; rire rouge (uncommon expression), “to laugh until one is red in the face,” that is, ‘“immoderately.”

Page 52.—1. chouans, royalist sympathizers who carried on a kind of guerilla warfare in Western France under the First Republic (1792-1804). Some claim that the name comes from the nickname of one of the leaders of the rebellion, Jean Cottereau, also called le Chouan; others, that it originated from their adoption of the screech of the chouette (brown owl) as a rallying cry.

2. Les volontaires, #%e volunteers who had served in the armies of the Republic. — Les partisans, ie. /es partisans du roi.

3. l’habit à la française, #ke grenadier's coaf, made on the model of a swallow-tail coat, with broad white facings.

4. j’ sommes, dialectal for #ous sommes, i.e. my party is victorious.

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