le convoi de Nelson, after Trafalgar in

1. 17. toien que nous puissions en France souffrir. The French had every reason to hate Wellington. He had beaten Napoleon's greatest generals during the Peninsular War, and he defeated Napoleon in 1815 at Waterloo.

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1. 3. les deux premières années de la révolution. The years 1789, 1790.

1. 6. rien de semblable. The modem construction would be ' quelquechose de semblable.' Rien is derived from the Latin accusative rem, a thing. As a masculine substantive ^m rien means 'a trifle.' Cf. ' un songe, un rien, tout lui fait peur ' (La Fontaine).