devenir amoiireux de, to fall in love witli

à la folie, adverbial phrase of manner or degree — to distraction, dcsperatcly.

6. montât, and fût ; account for tlie use of tlie subjunctive. être de, means to take a share in ; liera — to join.

8. prendre les devants, to take the start ; devant used as a nouii nieaiis the fore-part, front — le devant d'un édifice; op. aiso p. 20, 1. 13, les pattes de devant.

9-10. bonnes gens ; an adjective preceding gens is put in the

fc7ninine.

1 2. hacher menu, literally, to chop small ; ' menu ' is used —

(1) adjectively — menus détails, minor dctaiJs.

(2) adverbially — la gent trotte-menu, the tribe of mice

and rats. See Lafontaine's Fables, ' Le Chat et le vieux Rat,' p. 79, 1. 41.

(3) substantively — le menu, detailed account, bill of fare.

chair à pâté, word for word — méat (flesh) for pastry, i.c. mince-meat ; à before the second componentof a compound generally dénotes the destination of the first ; thus — ' verre à vin,' 'chambre à coucher,' etc.; see p. x.

13. à qui était ; ' être à ' may be rendered without changing the

construction by to beloncj to, or by to be, with the complément in the possessive case ; hère — ivhose was ... ?