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61 11— Mais sentant qu*il lui fallait : But feeling that he required.
61 IG— Une mauvaise carte : A wretched' map. The adjective mauvais has a différent meaning when it précèdes and when it foUows the noun ; as, Une épigramme méchamtet a cutting epigram ; une méchante épigramme, a aoretc?i«d epigram.
1 — Tricotait : was knitting.
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Page 62 Une 14 — ^La Marseillaîse A song, or rather a patriotio
and revolationiiiy ode, composed by RougM.
''* 15— Aguerries : Innred to war.
*? 23 — ^Me font Teffet de battre la campagne : Look aa if they were losing their heads.
62 27 — ^NouB ne saurions en trouver de tout fsàiB : W*
cannot find them readj made.
53 4 — Se défaire de : To get rid of.
53 17 — ^Par la croisée : Through the window. Croisée,
primitively zr fenêtre croisée, Le. into four compartments. From Lat. cruœ. Un croisé, a crusader.
63 21 — J'ai bonne envie : I bave a good mind»
63 22 — ^n a son écharpe .* He wears his scaïf Tbe scarf
is the badge (insignia) worn b^ mayors and commissaries of police in France.
68 22 — ^n se débat : He stmggles.
64 2 — ^Pour brtder la cervelle : To blow ont the braUuk 64 4 — ^Mais qu'importe : But what does it matter.
64 8 — ^Les accès de colère : The fits of passion.
64 17 — ^Défaillante : Nearly fainting.
54 21 — S'étaient empressés : Had hastened.
65 5 — ^Des marronniers : Of the horse-chestnut trees.
66 17 — ^Ëst allé en reconnaissance: Went ont recon»
noitring.
66 18 — ^Ârgenton : A borough in the department of Les Deux Sèvres.
' 66 22 — Qui labourait : Who was ploughing. To laibour
=: travailler.
65 23 — ^Dans la caserne : In the barracks. The French
Word ha/raque means a but, a shed ; from the Spanish harraca.
66 28 — ^Une souricière : A mouse-trap. From the Lat.
sorieem, 66 6— A poindre : To dawn. From the Lat. pungere,
to pierce, to appear.
66 10 — ^Portent des sacs : Carry theîr knapsacks.
66 27 — ^Et on continuait le chapelet: And they con-
tinued to pray. Un chapelet = a chaplet.
Un rosaÂre = a rosary (beads).
67 16 — ^Repartit : Beplled. H a reparti = be bas
replied ; il est reparti = he bas set out again ; il a réparti =: be bas divided.
57 S2 — S'esquivèrent : S tôle away. Un eiquif = a small boat. From tbe Greek axa^nt a ^dfi.
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Faffe 68 Une 12— Des ooctrdes : Gookadef. Old F?cneh, eoquarde»
a toft of ooek fesXtera wfaieh HtLngarian, Polish, and other Boldieni lued to wear on theîr caps.
68 17 — ^Amoncelait: Heapednp.
59 15 — ^Alalégôre: Inoonsiderately.
59 22 — ^Entre quatre murs : Shat np in this home. lit.
between f onr walls.
69 30 — ^Elfiarô : Bewildered. From Lat. pfferaref to make
to look wild, from/tfra a wild beast.
60 12— Que c'était à : That it beionged to.
60 28 — Elle avait interdit : She had forbidden.
61 5 — ^Avaient rompn la consigne: Had diaobeyed
orders, i.e. had roahed ont of the honse oontraiy to their mastez^s order.
62 8 — Je voudrais bien savoir : I wonder.
62 7 — ^Mais il y avait bien dn inonde : Bnt there were
many. <
62 11 — ^Dooze gargonsses: Twelve cartridges. Origin nnknown. It is, perhaps, a oormption of cartouche.
62 24 — ^Les gardes françaises : A régiment of the gnards of the king of France before the. Bevolation. We say un gcurde fnmçaisÉ ; bat we say un garde impérial.
HIÈ 26— Mais ce serait peut-être un peu gros pour moi : But I don't know if I hâve interest enough for that. ^
42 26~Four le moment il s'agit de nous battre : AU we hâve to do now is to fight.
^ 4— M. d'Elbée : Gigot d'Elbée, généralissime of the
Yendean royalists was bom in 1752. After many victories and many defeats he was at length wounded and taken prisoner, brought before a court-martial, and shot, January 2,
4i3 6— Nantee : The chief town of the department of
the Lower Loire.
68 14 — ^Et il se redressait : And he drew himself up.
68 26— Au quartier général : At head-quarters.
64 1«— Vers le canapé : Towards the sofa, From Lat.
conopeum^ a pavilion of the ancient Egyptians to protect themselves against insects, whioh is derived from the Greek cmi'w^, a gnat. Tha English Word a canopy has the same origixi.
Fagê 6é 1mm 10— Les arbres de la liberté : The tiees of libertj.
Wbenever a revolation breaks oat in France^ the patriots plant poplars in ereiy toim, whicn are called arbres de la lU)ertê.
64 34 — Nous avons de tout: We baye men of erery
description, bo 8— Ce sont des éclaireors ! Tbej are soouts.
65 23 — ^Reconnaissance: Beconnoitiing.
6d 28 — ^Parthenay: A town of France in the department of Les Deux-Sôvres.
65 30— Leur reconnaissance : Their gratitude.
66 6— An carrefour; At the cross-waj (where loar ways meet). From Lat. quadrifwenm,
16— Gênerait: Would impede.
67 ft— I>*un calTBÎre : Of a calvaiy : <. e. a mound on
which a cross bas been ereoted.
67 16— Des faux emmanchées à Tenvers : Scythes mth
reversed blades. Fatus, from Lat. /al«.
Faucille^ a sickle, faucher ^ to mow.
66 1— Brandissaient des broches à rôtir ou môme de
gros gourdins : Were brandishing spits or even big clubs.
68 22 — Marie- Jeanne : The name of a oannon.
68 30— Et la petite : And the young lady.
69 11 — ^Le cardinal : The cardinal Biohelieu.
69 13— Louis XIII. : Eing of France. The only good thing that can be said of him is, that he was the son of Henry lY. and the father of Lewis XIY.
69 15 — ^DeTaffût: Of the gun-cairiage.
69 22 — Qui Pont enfourchée : Who are astnde on HL
70 10 — Interdite : Confused.
70 20 — Je me charge du tabac : I will see to the tobacco.
70 29 — A besoin de vivres : Must bave victuals.
70 81 — ^Au premier d'abord : At first.
71 10 — Le petit roman de la maison : The little domestîo
épisode.
71 12— -Ne tourne pas si vite cosaque: Does not change
aides so easily. Lit. Does not put on his coat
inside ont. Comp. tum-eoai»
71 17 — Comment vas-tu dire : How can you be so im*
prudent as to say.
71 21— Ne s'accomodait pas : Was not satisfied.
166 K0XB8.
Pëç9 72 Une 2 — ^Thonan : A town of Fnnoe in ihe departmeni
of Les Denx-Sè'VTes.
72 15 — ^Les renseignements : The information.
73 11 — ^Des guée: Fotda. Passer la rivière à gue, to
f ord a river. Lat. vadwn. Low Lat. jvadum.
73 30— Fais-y attention : Hâve an eye upon him.
74 5 — ^Les biens tenaient bon: The republicans held
ont.
74 7— Partait à tonte bride : Went off at foll speed.
74 13 — ^A la bonne henre ! Ail right, then.
74 16 — Sans ÎBJie plier les républicains: Withont sue-
oeeding in dislodging the republicans.
74 24 — Ils avaient coutume : Thej were acoustomed.
Avoir coutume is said of ordinaxy things which frequently occur ; as. Il a coutume de se lever de bonne heure. Avoir la coutume is said of eztraordinary things ; as, H y a des pays où les femmes ont Za coutume de se percer le nez pour y pendre des joyaux.
76 16 — ^En se hioBant sur les épaules : Getting on the shoulders. Hisser, an active verb, means to hoist.
75 18— Qui était dégradé : \¥hich was in a dilapidated
state.
75 27 — ^Arborez un drapeau blanc : Hoist a white flag.
75 31 — ^11 y en a ; Some do.
76 8— Yoilà ! There is one.
76 28 — ^Une chaise de paille: A straw-bottomed chair.
La chair = flesh ; la chaire = pulpit.
77 8-^Par défaut de mémoire : For want of memory.
La mémoire = memory ; un mémoire, me* morandum, bill (com.) ; un mémoire d'apothicaire, exorbitant bilL
77 10— D'échouer : To be defeated. Échouer (nav.) to run aground.
77 14 — ^Mais dût-il y aller de la guillotine : But were I to suffer by the guillotine. T aUer da = to be at stake ; as, Il y va de mon honneur, my honour is at stake. Guillotina, of historicid orîgin, is from M. Guillotin, a French physician, who invented this instrument.
77 80 — Par égard pour moi : Out of déférence fer me.
77 81 — ^Ne point froisser: Not to hurt. From Lat
frictiaae, to mb violently.
78 3 — Couchera: Will pass the night. Coucher, aa
active verb =: to put to bed; se eoucher = to go to bed.
Page 78 Une 4 — ^Donnant sur : Looking on.
78 13 — Nenni: No. Formerly nermil; from Lat. no» xïlvd. Lit. Not that.
78 27 — ^Les baïonnettes: The bayonets. A weapon
named from Bayonne^ a town of France in the Lower Pyrénées, where it was invented.
79 15— Marat was bom in 1744. Alter having at first
applied himself to the stndy of medicine, he took to literatnre, then to jonmalism, and miblished a daily paper, called, L*aanii du «.Mpl0, in which he propagated his diabolical doctrines. He was stabbed by an enthusiastio yonng woman, Charlotte Corday, whom Lamfljiine has styled the ** Angel of assassination," July, 1793. 79 20 — ^De naissance : From their cradle.
79 23 — Sanmur : A tôwn of France in the department of
Maine-et-Loire ; it contains a school for the cavahry.
80 6 — ^A la première affaire : In the next battle.
xn.
81 12 — ^Bt nous n*ayons rien pu en tirer : And we conld not get anything ont of her.
81 16 — Gomme elle y va ! Oh ! gently, I pray !
82 1 — ^Ponr se porter sur : To march to.
82 9 — ^Les vastes jachères: The large fallow-lands.
Jachères, acoording to Mezeray, comes from
Lat. jaeere: Terrae jacentes «neultod, nncnl-
tivated lands.
82 10 — ^Les landes embaumées par les ajoncs en fleura :
The heaths perfomed with fnrze in bloom.
82 12 — ^Et qui restaient en friche : And which remained
uncnltivated. Der. défricher.
82 29— Je reviens : I shall not be long. Bevenir = to
come back ; retowmerf to go back.
88 ' 8— Mais si I Yes, I did.
83 25— Peut-être : Thèse two words, joined by a hyphen,
= perhaps. Without the hyphen they form two verbs = may be.
84 1 — Cette relevée : This afternoon.
84 5 — C*est Yons qni labourez? Is it you that are
ploughing f 84 9 — Châtain, etc. : Names of those oxen.
84 14 — Faut-il faire vos amitiés f Shall I give your Iotc f 84 17 — Sa charrue : Her plough. From Lat. camiea. 84 20 — ^Des baies de myrtil: Myrtle berries. Une haie
(Geog.) a bay.
xm.
Fag$ 85 Jmê 2— Devaient marcher : Were to mareÎL
85 6— Je les renToie tant qne je penx : I send as manv
of them home as I can spaie.
85 12 — ^llanqnaient à l'appel : Were absent.
85' 18 — ^Dans les faubourgs: In the snbnrbs. More properfy wzitten in Old French/orbourg, forshùwrg; from mediœyal Lat. forisbtvrgtu zz a qnarter ontside the gâtes of a city.
86 7 — Tenait encore : Was still holding ont. Tenir à,
to care for; tenir de, to take after; Je n*y tiens plus, I cannot stand it any longer.
86 212 — On n'a pas comme ça Marie-Jeanne : You won't take Marie- Jeanne so easily.
86 23 — ^A cheval sur : Astride on.
87 1 — Snr Taffût : On the gnn carnage.
87 10 — Se mit à rire: Began to laugh. 8e mettre à,
means to begin only, when foUowed by a verb.
Se mettre = to dress ; as. Cette dame se met
bien, This lady dresses well.
87 21 — ^Par rapport au tirage : Because I did not ^ish
to draw lots.
