square du Bon-Marché : the extensive shops of the Bon

Marché stand at the corner of the Rue de Sè Rue du Bac. In front of them is a squ The English word square is not used in F square with gardens.

vres and the are with gardens.

rench except for a

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13. 8, Omnibus : the vehicles of the : Compagnie générale des omni. bus’ run through Paris by over thirty different routes, desig. nated on the outside of each omnibus by one o

r more letters of the alphabet, The o different routes are known in the daytime by lours, and at night by coloured lamps.

la Chaussée du Maine : this is an he. L “tant street on the south side of the Seine, Starting from the ; ‘urch of St, Pierre

* and passing to the West of the Gare de l'Ouest, Le Maine was à Province of France, Capital Le

la gare du Nord : of the railway known as

‘le chemin de fer du Nord is situated in the Place Roubaix, On the right bank of the Seine,

» 9. la rue de l'Abbé-Grégoire : this is a short cross-street, running from the Rue de Vaugirard to the Rue de Sèvres, which it enters Opposite l'Hôpital Laennec, Henri Grégoire was born in 1750 and di is i He was a well.

known revolutionist me Bishop of Blois.

‘ Coppée m'arrêta devant le numéro 9 de cette rue qui s'appelait autrefois rue Saint Maur-Saint-Germain, qui s'est appelée ensuite rue des Missions, et est aujourd'hui placée sous le vocable de l'abbé Grégoire. , C'est au second étage

- que François Coppée naquit le 26 janvier 1842.'— De Lescure, 7; 4 +

the terminus

m Poitou.

À two-horse Omnibus conlaces—14 in

side and 12 or 14 outside,

: the Roman legion was a body of 3000 to over 6000 men at different

times, and usually combi

€ maniples, and each

maniple into two centuries,

» 13. S’abritant de leurs boucliers : the Roman shields or bucklers were usually

Y of wood covered with 1 Strap, worn on the Jeft arm. In battle, besieging 4 town, the Roman soldiers

ves by raising their shields above their heads, and locking the

eather, and

M all together. This arrangement was known as the ‘testudo' Or ‘ tortoise-shel]]. ’ »” 14. marchent à l'assaut de, ‘advance to storm. »» 16. les ‘Nord: je. Passengers bound for the gare du lord.

» 17. Sans so douter de, ‘ without s

‘to doubt,' ‘to question’; $e douter de ‘conjecture * : Je m'en dontais ben, ‘I th

douter de means is ‘to suspect Ought as much,”