enfin : here :‘ never naind

» 20. tout de même really has the same meaning as de même, viz.

‘in a similar manner,’ ‘of the same kind’; but it is also used to mean ‘nevertheless,’ 2. ere.

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14. 24. l'omnibus Complet : when an Omnibus is full à small board is suspended Over the door, Inscribed with the word complet ; another such board 18 placed beneath the driver's seat,

‘* 25. 8e remeten branle, : sets itself

again in motion,’ ‘in swing.

six gros sous : À #04 corresponds to a half-penny, a gros ‘4 10 a penny, Each inside Passenger in an omnibus pays 39 centimes, Whatever be the distance traversed, A £ros sou is Worth 10 centimes, s/x #705 sous 5 therefore Correct payment for two Persons,

5. l'hôpita] Lariboisière : this hospital is situated in a square close to the Gare du Nord, in the angle formed by the meeting of the Boulevard de Ja Chapelle and the Boulevard de Magenta. Jt Was built between 1846 and 1853 and COntains over 600 beds. [n the chapel lies the tomb of Mme de Lariboisière, from whom it takes its name. She bequeateg nearly three millior, francs to the Poor of Paris.

+ Qui ne se peuvent rendre que, : which Can only be conveyed or expresse ’

15. Philippe de Champaigne, or de Cham the Flemish school, was born a Paris in 1674. He went to Paris at th became painter to the Queen of France, and Was the Acad e de Peinture on its foundatio 1648. His Portraits are most esteemed, Particularly one of Richelieu, 19. elles, referring to /; introductory subject

23. les bonnes gens : as a Seneral rule, ciples Preceding gens and belonging to Put in the feminine 8ender, those which Separate clause in the masculine,

* 26. allez: here ‘I Can tell you.’

» 28. un petit sec, ‘2 little, understood,

** 29. ancien, “former.”

Chasseur, ‘hunter,’ ‘fowler,’ ‘huntsma,, ‘footman ' ‘waiter.' Here it means à soldier belonging to a body of light troops, Mounted or on foot, specially designed for rapid movements and for the Pursuit of the ENEMY. Les chasseurs d'Afrique Wear à blue tunic and red trousers, and à red fez : chasseurs de Vincennes, ‘ Vincennes rifle-corps."

Vincennes : à town about 2 mile

of Paris, noted for its castle, d'Enghi in 13

mains which follows, is used as an

adjectives and partithe same clause are follow or are in a

dried-up, thin Man." Homme is

S €ast of the fortifications in the moat of which the Duc n was shot in 1804.

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tsar mener era tene (re Mbps sad ré hnrgens

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16. 1. Crimée: the Crimean war was fought in 1853-56 between Russia and the allied forces of Turke , France, Great Britain, and Sardinia. It arose through a quarrel about the ‘ Holy Places” in Palestine, and the jealousy between England and Russia. The chief events were—the battle of Sinope, 1853; the Russian occupation of the principalities on the Danube, battle of the Alma, beginning of siege of Sebastopol, Balaklava, and Inkerman in 1854: attacks on Sebastopol, Tchernaya, storming the Malakoff, fall of Sebastopol, and the capture of Kars by the Russians in 13 55 The war was ended by the Treaty of Paris in 1856.

» 6. Enfant-Jésus : this is apparently the same as l'Hôpital des Enfants Malades, a large children's hospital lying between the Rue de Sèvres and the Rue de Vaugirard.

» 7- Sa petite figure de papier mâché: i.e. pale, betraying great weakness of health.

»» 8. vous: here used in an indefinite sense, as ‘ you” is sometimes used in English in the place of ‘ one.

» 11. Qu'il m'a dit: popular for »'a-t-il dit.

pas vrai? short for n'esf.ce pas vrai? Cf. pas for n'est-ce 2as ? below, 1. 17.

… 13. tu l’avaleras : /' is here emphatic.

… 26. faut vous dire: popular for i/ faut vous dire que mon mari .,

», 30. est-ce que je sais? transi. ‘and what not ?’

31. la fête du 14: i.e. the anniversary of the capture of the Bastille by the people of Paris on July 1x4, 1789. Cf. note, p. 38 1. 6 on /« Bastille.

c'était à la suite de, ‘it was following on.' 17. 2. son imbécile de père: for this use of de cf. un fripon

. faut toujours que . . :

d'enfant; un saint homme de chat (La Fontaine's Fables, vi. 16).

- Ma-t-il assez agacée? this is not a real question, but an

exclamatory remark put interrogatively, in order to be more emphatic and to arrest attention.

transl. ‘but, as for men, they must always," etc. Æaut is elliptical for £/ faut in popular speech. Cf. p. 16 1. 26, p. 171. 19, and p. 49 I. 18 faudra for il Jaudra.

ça: a familiar contraction for cela. Cela is used in a popular

Way when speaking of persons, and should be translated by

a personal pronoun. Here translate ‘they.’ Ex.—comme

cela dort, ces Jeunes gens !

en in, y nd 3; e,

nd as

es en

Rev

Notes 83 Page LINE 17. 7. leur joujou, quoi! an elliptical phrase, CXpresSing the idea

‘that is their Plaything,' or ‘it is, as one may say, their Plaything.'

» 16. au 32: elliptical for au nue

la rue des Vinaigriers is a small cross-street, south of the

Gare de l'Est, leading from the Boulevard de Magenta to the Quai de Valmy.

» 18. un puits d'air: their rooms Probably overlooked of very small dimensions, in which th Come stagnant for want of outlet,

19. un mot: ie. à Short note of rec de mes amis : trans. ‘who is a friend of mine.’

” 21. même que. ,: à vulgarism for j'a had." Que is here used for the sake