N0TB
PofTtf 98 Une 1 — Je veux le mettre en tezre sainte : I will bnxy
him in holy ground. 8(Unt, holy; sain, healthy, wholeaome ; satn, boBom; sMn^, seal; eéint, gbrt.
98 7 — Qui l'ayait mandé : Who had sent for him t
98 10 — ^Dans nn grenier : In a loft.
98 12 — ^De tomber sur : To hâve for bis jailor.
98 15 — ^Et il eût bien voulu y travailler pour sa part:
And be would bave liked to do sometbing towards it.
99 28 — ^Et d'un accent pénétrant : Ând in an empbatie
tone. Tbe différence between tbe Ftenoh words emphase, emphatique^ and tbe Englisb emphasis, emphatic^ is very great: emphase means bombast, grandiloquence ; mnphaais, force, energy.
100 2-— Engourdie : Benumbed ; bere, silent.
100 8 — ^n n'y a plus que moi de Saint-Aubin : I am tbe
only survivor of Saint-Aubin.
100 24 — Marmottait : Muttered.
100 24 — Mais quoique ça : But still.
101 5 — ^De la basse-cour : Of tbe poultry yard.
^ 101 17 — Je voulais vous dire comme ça : I only ^mbed te
tell you. Comme ça is a provindaUsm.
101 26— Du pauvre innocent : Of tbe poor idiot.
102 2 — ^Inquiéter : To barass.
102 14— De faire face : To meet.
102 20— A s'émouvoir : To be alarmed.
108 4 — Santerre : Commandant of tbe National Guard
of Paris, and gênerai in tbe repubUcan army, was a ricb brewer wbo availed bimself of circumstances to act a part in tbe Frenob révolution. He presided at tbe exécution of Louis XYI., on tbe 21st January, 1793, and acquired an unenviable notoriety by ordering tbe drums to beat, to prevent tbe kmg*B voice to be beard wben be attempted to address tbe people.
108 18 — ^11 avait aussitôt sauté le remblai: He bad at
once'cleared tbe embankment.
108 24 — Francbirent: Cleared.
104 2 — ^Les cbemins étaient joncbés de fusils que les
pieds des cbevaux faisaient partir : Tbe roads were strewn witb guns wbicb tbe borses* boof s oaused to go off .
XOTB8. 171
PagJiOé Um 6— Faites exeiue : I beg jour pardon.
104 12 — ^Mettant pied à terre: Ând dismounting. tJn
pied-à-terre = a Bhooting-box. s
104 15 — ^Eparses: Scattered. Formerly Mpart. From
Lat. aparsuB.
104 17 — Qui tiraillaient : Who were gkirmiahing. 104 19 — ^U les manqua : He missed them.
104 81— Libre: deared.
105 1 — Tours: the chief town of the department of
La Loire.
105 8 — ^De remettre an lendemain : To put off to the
nezt day. Remettre quelqu'un, to recognize
somebody.
105 15 — Toi troisième : You and two others.
105 24 — ^Pour l'office du soir: For the evening divine
service.
105 27-^Au pinacle : At the pinnacle ; i.e. at the culminât-
ing point. From Lat. pinaeulwnt a pointed
rooL
106 6 — ^Ponr aller au-devant de : To go and meet.
106 9 — ^De sa monture : Of her horse.
106 19 — S'entre-choquaient : Ghattered.
107 4 — ^Les étriers: The stirmps. Boire le oonp de
Vétrier, to drink the stirmp-cnp. A franc
étrier, at full speed.
107 10— J'aurai à panser: I shall hâve to dress the
wounds. Panser un cheval, to groom a horse.
From Lat. pensare, to think ; then, to take oare,
to dress, to groom.
107 10 — ^Et à remettre bras ou jambe : And to set an arm
or a leg.
107 24 — n n'y a rien de tel : There is nothing like it.
107 26— Se remettait : Was recovering.
108 23 — ^Bien contre son gré: Much against his wilL
Prov. grat, It. yrato, from Lat. graiwn,
108 25 — M. de Charette. Francis Athanasius de Charette
de La Gontrie, a French royalist, and leader of the Yendeans. He displayed great bravery in many combats, but being at length defeated by the republicans, he was taken prisoner, and shot at Nantes in 1796.
109 10 — ^Pour entraîner ; To urge on, to inspirit.
109 14 — La Loire : A noble nver in France which has its source in the ** Gevennes," and its mouth in the Océan.
Pag,X10 Une 10 — ^Mais elle n'avançait plus: Bnt she no longer
spoke ot'.
110 16— Pour ça non I Certainly not.
110 29 — ^Faites démenbler : Haye the fimiitnre removed. 110 80 — ^Au train : At the rate. Etre en trtxini to be in
good spirits ; être en train de/to be disposed
to ; mener grruid train, to lead a fast lif e ;
mettre en trains to set going.
110 80— >Le général Westermann: F. Jo. Westermann»
born at Molsheim (Alsace) in 1764, seired in Belgiom nnder Domouriez, then as a gênerai in Yendea. He was sentenced to death at the same time as Danton, and execated in
111 11— Si vous tardez: If you are delayed. Tarder
à, impersonal verb = to long to, as : il ma tarde d'aller à Paris, I long to go to Paris.
112 2 — Il n'a rien : He is not woonded.
112 12 — Pour sa journée : To do his day's work.
112 17 — ^Lorsqu'un palefrenier : A groom. From paZéifroi,
which, accor^ing to Nicot, comes from the three wordo par le frein, i.0. by the bit or bridle, because horses ridden by gentlemen and ladies, before carriages were used, were led by attendants who held them by the bridle. Un palefroi^ a palfrey.
113 16— Niort : Ghief town in the department of Les
Deux- Sèvres.
113 16 — Où l'on te disait : Where I was told you were.
114 6 — Se mourait : Was dying.
114 9 — Je n'ai rien pu faire enlever à Clisson : I eould
not hâve anything removed from Clisson.
114 18 — ^Pour cerner : To invest.
114 20 — S'étaient embusqués dans les taillis: Were
lying in wait in the copses. From It. imbos-
care, properly to allure into the bush.
116 7 — Gagnant les greniers et les granges : Spreading
to the lofts and bams.
116 26 — On ne peut pas leur en vouloir : We oannot blâme
them for it.
116 26—11 faut trouver du monde pourtant: Still we
must bave men. 116 8 — ^Et faisait sonner : And caused the ohurch bells
to be rung.
116 14 — ^Et c'est plus commode ainsi : And dressed as I
am,, it is more convenient.
117 3 — ^n ne manquait pas un homme de Mallièvre:
There was not a man missing of the parish of Mallièvre.
117 6— Y0118 avez dû être: You must hâve beon.
