Chemin de Countries the series of pict Passion of Je
walls of a church,
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Prevalent from the middle of the twe
Ifth century of classical models in the fifteenth
and sixteenth and vault are merely details of adaptability to all a rank in its kind as
applied to architecture, flame-like tracery in windows of French mediaeval a$ Contemporary with the English Per-
Croix, or de /a Croix: in Roman Catholic Chemin de La Croix is the name given to à ures representing the different Stages of the sus, and placed at intervals along the inside
or in the open air. The worshippers
Pass along and Say an appropriate Prayer before each.
Saint-Sulpice is the richest ç
Stands in a sq north-west of images in plas
24 2. berlingot : /4
in the plural, like amour and orvue.
24. que is here used as a Correlative of ce for the sake and serves to introduce the real subject.
T. Algérie : the conquest of
1830, but the Country was not organised sion until 1834.
that time, 4 Lamoricière w
a noted French general, who
Algeria agains
Sovernor of Paris and minister Of war in 1848. Louis Napoléon, and Was arrested
in 1852.
duc de Nemours, Prince Louis Charles Phili
d'Orléans, was Louis-Philippe, taking part in lived in Engian
hurch south of the Seine, It uare of the same name, situated à little to the the Luxembourg Palace, Make
rs of common ter, etc., abound in this quarter,
in the singular and feminine
of emphasis,
Algeria by France Was begun in
as à colonial posses- Various insurrections have occurred since
as born in 1806 and died in 1865. He was
served with distinction in t Abd-el-Kader, and Was made military
He opposed and afterwards banished
ppe Raphael born in 1814. He was the second son of
and served as a 8eneral in the French army, the Algerian expeditions in 1836-37. He d from 1848 to 1870, and in France from
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1870 to 1886, when he was expelled from the army and went to live in Belgium. Nemours is a town in the department of Seine-et-Marne, 45 miles south-east of Paris.
25. 7. Bugeaud de ja Piconnerie, Thomas Robert, was born in 1784 and died in 1849. In 1836 he was sent to Algiers, where he concluded a treaty with Abd-el-Kader. Four years later he was made Governor-General of Algeria, and in 1843 Marshal of France. He defeated the Emperor of Marocco at [sly in 1844, for which exploit he was created ‘ Duc d'Isly." He did much to organise the Zouaves as regular troops.
» 8. Abd-el-Kader was born in 1807 and died in 1883. He Was an Arab chief, Emir and Bey of Mascara, celebrated for his protracted resistance to the French armies in Algeria from 1832 to 1847. In the latter year he yielded himself prisoner to General Lamoricière, In 18 52 Napoleon granted him his
freedom on condition that he should not conspire against the French in Africa.
» 12. baïonnette, ‘bayonet,' so called from the town of Bayonne, where it was invented,. Bayonets are of various forms ; a common kind is the Sword-Layonet, a short sword made to fasten by a spring-catch to the barrel of a rifle or carbine, and carried in a scabbard when not so fixed. Baiïonnettes often Stands for soldiers Carrying bayonets.
» 16. franc, ‘franc.’ In 1360 King John of France had a coin struck representing himself on horseback, and with the device Francorum rex, hence the name ‘franc. The franc has been the monetary unit of the decimal System in France since 1795, and is formed of silver and copper alloy. A franc is worth about 9$d Engli money. Zivre is still synonymous with /ranc, but is now only used as money of account, Deux mille francs is about £80, and deux cent cinquante francs is about Lio. Cf. note, p. 60 I. 20.
» 18. Croix: the Cross of the Legion of Honour, an order of distinction and reward for civil a, 1 military services, originally instituted in 1802 by Napoleon when consul, but since modified in some respects. The order holds considerable Property, the proceeds of which are devoted to the payment of pensions, chiefly to wounded and disabled members.
» 20. faste, ‘pomp'; fasses, ‘annals,” ‘records.
» 23. le passage des Portes de Fer: in 1839 the Duc d'Orléans marched with a powerful army into the interior of Algeria, and received the submission of several chiefs. This was followed by an expedition, in the course of which the army passed through a famous defile called the Biban or Iron Gates, through which the Turks in the height of their power
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Whom this event aCCordingly created a profound impression, as indeed it had been intended to do.
25. 30. oisifs : distinguish between oisif and oiseux. Oisif means
one who happens to be doing nothing, Perhaps quite by chance, whilst viseux denotes one who is in the habit of doing nothing. When Speaking of things, oisif means ‘ that is not used,’ 0ëseux ‘that is of no use." Un talent ofsif, i.e. ‘one that lies dormant, that js not exercised." Zes détails oiseux, i.e. ‘useless Particulars.'
d'alentour, ‘sSurrounding,' "neighbouring. Alentour is an adverb and cannot therefore be followed by an object. A/enfours, used as a noun in the plural, means ‘ neighbourhood.'
26. y. que tapissait : transl. ‘Papered with,” or ‘hung with.
* 12, Poniatowski, Prince Jozef Anton, the nephew of King Stanislaus, was born in 1762. He served against the Russians in 1792 and 1794, but retired to Vienna on Kosciusko's defeat. In 1806 he was Persuaded by Napoleon to become the leader of à Polish contingent, which rendered signal service to the French during the Campaign of 1807 against the Russians. In 1809 he invaded Galicia, and in 1812 again joined the French in their Russian Campaign and entered Moscow with Napoleon. In 1813 Napoleon gave him the command of a mixed Corps of French and Poles and made him à marshal Of France just before the battle of Leipzig, where the Prussians, Russians, Austrians and Swedes defeated the French. A few days after, while protecting the retreat of the French, he was wounded and finally
drowned in the river Elster, A Poem has been written on this subject by Béranger (1837).
Elster : there are two rivers of this name, called respectively the Black and the White Elster. The one here meant.is the White Elster, in Central Germany, about 120 miles long, which joins the Saale, a tributary of the Elbe, ne
Leipzig is situated at the junction of the Elster Pleisse and Parthe.
* 15: Confortable is an Anglicism from the English comfortable, which again is from the French confort. The termination able usually bears a passive meaning, as aimable, je. “worthy to be loved House however, sometimes"used actively, aS in favorable, Sécourable, and as here in confortable,
However, one cannot translate ‘I am comfortable,' ‘are You comfortable ?” ete., literally.
» 22. rhum, ‘rum,' a strong spirit distilled from
the juice of the sugar-c
ane in any form, usually from the refuse juice left
after Sugar-making, but also from molasses,
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26. 26. s'alla promener : somewhat archaic for a//a se promener. 27. 1. séjour : transl. ‘to frequent.'
» 3. absinthe (f.): in botany, ‘wormwood.' Also used for an aromatic liqueur of a greenish colour and very bitter taste, prepared by steeping in alcohol or strong spirit bitter herbs, such as Artemisia Absinthium ; hence the name. Figuratively absinthe means ‘ grief," ‘bitterness.' Leur style est mêlé de felet d'absinthe, ‘their style is a mixture of gall and bitterness.
» 4. il aurait pu dresser de toutes les villes . . un plan : ie. #n plan de toutes les villes. The long explanatory phrase following 2/an has here caused the inversion.
» 9. Chopes : from Germ. Schoppen (‘ pint'), a large glass in the shape of a truncated cone, capable of holding about half a litre of beer, ‘ a beer-glass' or ‘ glass of beer.'
» 24. par trop means ‘much too.’ In Old French per had an intensitive meaning, corresponding to the use of the Latin per before an adjective; as par grand, ‘ very great: CE Latin permagnus. In Modern French par retains this sense only before #rop. In Latin the preposition 2er could not be separated from the adjective as was frequently done in Old French. Ex.—/ant par est blans come flur en estet, ‘it is as white as a flower in summer.
28. s. édifices can be used of any things arranged or combined with art, in a way in which we sometimes use the word ‘erection."
bols à punch, ‘punch-bowls.' The preposition à signifies that the bowls are intended to hold punch. A &o/ de pPunc/ would mean a bowl actually full of punch. The Hindoo word fanchk m.ans a mixture of five things, and punch was originally su, osed to contain five ingredients, viz. water or tea, sugar, some kind of wine or spirit, cinnamon, and lemon-peel or juice.
» 6. billes de billard, : billiard balls.’ In England the game of billiards is usually played with three balls on a table having six pockets, but the French game is usually played with three balls on a table without pockets.
: » 10. le champagne : used elliptically for Z vin de champagne.
» 11. trémière is only used in the expression rose rémière, a hollyhock or rose-mallow, although #rémier is occasionally used in some parts of France as a noun. Other names for the hollyhock are rose de Damas, de mer, d'outre-mer, and Passe-rose.
» 12. mots Carrés: 2» mot carré is a word
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28. 11. se fit servir : servir is here used to set food or drink on the table,
" 19. point and sas may often be used indiscriminately, but of the two Point conveys a Stronger negative than Pas, even as a “point is smaller than a ‘step.’
’ 22. Ce nouveau venu: When xouveau venu is used as an adjective the Plural is nouveau veHUS, AS nouveau has the force of an adverb (=rouvellement) and is therefore invari. able; but when used as à noun the Plural is nouveaux
VENUS, AS nouveau has the force of an adjective, The plural of NOUveau-né, even when used as a noun, js, however, NOUVEAU-nés.
absolutely in the sense of or before any one.
