HOTES
Pa^.117 1mm 23— Les haillons : The rags. Aeoording to Daohat,
haillon is a coniradiction of the obsolète Word hahillon for hahit from hcbbiller,
117 23 — ^EUe s'en était affublée : She had put them on.
B'affubler, to dress ridicnlously. S^a^hler d'un déguisement. From Low Lat. affibla^^ oontr. from afUbula/re,
118 10— Que Yonlez-vons ? Ah! Well!
118 11 — ^Mes escapades : My adventnres.
118 16 — ^Pleurait à chaudes larmes : Wept bitterly. 118 18 — A l'air d'une pauvresse: Looks hke a beggar-
woman.
118 23 — ^Elle éclatait de rire : She burst ont langhing.
119 9 — Que mon casaquin : Than my jaoket.
119 11 — Je n'oserais en faire cadean à personne: I
should not dare to give them to anybody. Un cadeau : a gift, présent = trifles. Fai/re d69 eadeœutt, formerly meant to amnse oneseU with trifles ; then eadecm was used for entertaiument ; thus Molière, in the Mouriage forcé, bas "J'aime les visites, les cadeauœ, etc." Father Bouhours dérives this word (meaning a repast) from eadendo, because, says he, drinkers totter and f ail, and that les cadeoMm generally end in this way.
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120 18— De les tondre : To eut their hair.
121 7 — ^Poussé à l'excès : Overridden.
121 28 — ^Poussa son cheval et franchit : Spurred his horse
and deared.
122 1 — ^Hors delui: Exasperated.
122 14 — ^Elle fondait en lannes : She burst into tears.
122 23 — ^Luçon : A town in France, in the department of
La Vendée.
128 6 — ^Faute de : For want of.
128 7— Bans le Bocage proprement dit: In that part of
La Vendée which is covered with hedges and eopses. Bocage, lit. a grove. Ant. hoea^e sacrée sacred grove, a wood in which was a temple dedicated to some divinity. Qeogr. le hocagê, a name given formerly to a part of Lower* Norman^. The only town which it oontained was Vire, now in the department of Le Oalvados.
128 15 — ^Dépourvue de vivres : Without aay of the
saxies of life.
P«f J2S Uêêê SI— Majenee: li al tiie présent time an important
town in IleaM Darmwtatlt At the begînning of the great yreneh leroliitk», tiie name of MaifemçaU was giren to the Frendi ganison of thia town (1792), wiiieh, being efMnpeOedto capitnlate, left the town wîth aâ the honoon of war, nnder the eonditîan ol not eanying anus against the aUied powen, and was acait to fight the Yendeana.
123 S5 — Xléber : A eelehrated Frendi gênerai, was bom
in Straahazg, in 1754. After haTÎng fon^t fike a hero at Mayenee, in La Vendée, then against the Anstrians, and at the head of the azn^of the Sambre et Meuse, he aoeompanied Bonaparte to Egypt, where he was assasgJTiatêd hj an Arab, Jnne 14th, 1800.
123 27 — Un breret pour marcher à l'éeka&rad: A
stepping-stone to the scafiFold. Un brevet^ fit. a patent. Un hretet, (mil.) a eonmiission.
124 17 — Jje matin même : That yery moming. lie fn^ms
matin, the same mcming.
125 1— Beanpréan: A town in Fzanee, in the départ-
ment of Maine-et-Loire.
125 20— Elles se repliaient : They f ell baek. 125 23— Biposter : Betnm the fire. JUpostar, (fane.) to
pany andthmst.
125 27— Portez-vous : Go to.
126 14 — Son air : His tone.
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127 6 — ^Lenrs foyers : Their homes.
127 12 — ^A nous : That belongs to ns.
129 7— Qni s'était cra lésé: Who thonght faimself
wronged. From Lat. Icmim.
129 28 — Sevrée: Weaned. Sevrer is a doublet of séparer.
129 28 — Ayant fait tarir : Having dried np.
180 19— S'étaient repUées : Had fallen back.
130 24 — ^De la voie dn devoir : From the path of daty.
From the Lat. via, La voixy voice.
130 31 — ^Un bronillard épais : A dense fog.
131 28 — ^A la bonne heure : It will be ail right then.
132 6— Les cabarets : The wine-shops.
1^2 7 — ^Le loquet : The latch. Loquet is the'diminutive
of Old Fr. loc, Engl. a Uck.
132 12 — ^Des soldats ivres: Of the dronlLen soldiers.
Lat. ehrivM.
132 17 — ^Frissonnait: Was shndderinc^
