VOTES
Pckçê 5 line 14 — ^Les braves gens : Honest people. When brave,
foUows the substantive, it means brave ; as : Un homme hrave, a brave man.
5 16 — Ainsi soit-il : Amen.
5 18—** A-t-on été chercher M. le curé f " ** Hâve you
sent for the priest f "
6 20 — ^11 venait d'entrer : He had just airived. Venir
<Ze, to hâve just ; venir à, to happen ; venir pour, to corne purposely ; venir foUowed by a verb without any intervening prepositiou, to corne and .
6 28 — ^Naguère : Not long ago, lately ; in old French, written n'a guères, a compound of avoir and guèreSf which originally meant ** much " : Je Tai va n*a guères, t. e. I hâve seen him not long ago. Qibère, from the German gar = much.
6 24 — Prêter serment : To take an oath. Old Frenoh, sairment, It. sacramentOf from Lat. socromentum,
5 26— Le presbytère: The parsonage; from Gr.
wpi<rfivTitpiov.
6 9 — Debout: Standing.
6 14 — ^De tout ce côté-là: From ail that part of the
conntry.
6 16— Mais si on ne se lève pas chez nous : But if
they do not rise in our district.
6 23 — ^Ne songez pas à nos injures : Never mind the
wrong they hâve done us.
6 27 — Plus blanche que le linge : Whiter than the bed-
clothes. Linge, lit. linen. From the Lat.
Uneum, 2 — ^Des Trois-Saules : Of the three willows. Un
aœule-pleurev/r, a weeping wUlow. Lat. saUx.
8 — ^11 était criblé de: He was riddled with. Un
crihle, a sieve, a riddle ; from Lat. crihrum, 7 — ^Ni moi non plus : Nor did I.
8 — ^Personne : Kobody. Personne, ind. pronoun, is
masculine, and means nohody. Personne, a
substantive, is féminine, and means so^nebody. 15 — ^Les paupières : The eyelids ; from the Lat«
paljpehra, 20 — C'est bien dommage : It is a great pity. 25 — ^A Taube du jour à la clairière de Saint-Pierre :
At daybreak at St. Peter's glade.
7 28 — Ce n'est guère notre chemin: It is hardly our way.
S 1 — ^Interrogeant les jeunes gens du regard : Looking
inquiringly at the young men.
8 6 — ^En attendant, Marthe veillera ici: In the meanwhile Martha will sit up hère.
Page 9 Une 1— La GonTontion Nationale : The National Oonven-
tion was a political assembly whioh, on the 2l8t September, 1792, succeeded the Législative Assembly for the puipose oi drawing np a new constitation.
9 8— Le Poitou et l'Anjou : Two proyinces in the weab
of France. Bef ore the Great Bevolution France was dlTided into provinces.
9 10 — Se rendaient sans difficulté au tirage: Went readily to draw lots.
9 11 — ^Entraînés: Carried away.
9 17 — La Terreur : The Terror. This is the name
which history has given to that terrible rule of the Committee of '' Public Safety," 1798— 1794. This rule of blood, carried on by th»
Triumyirate of the Terror (Bobespierre, Saint- Just and Couthon), ended with the exécution of its originators.
10 6— Le procès : The trial.
10 10 — ^Les cierges: The wax-tapers. 9tom the Lat. c&rcb,
10 12 — Assermenté : Swom. Un prêtre tusermefUéf means a priest who had taken the oath of allegiance required by the French Bepublio.
10 12 — ^Un intrus : An intruder. Lat. tntrtMum.
10 14 — ^Un voile : A veil. Une voile, a sail.
10 17 — ^Leurs bâtons noueux : Their knotty sticks.
10 18 — ^Leurs bons prêtres : Their good priests ; meaning those who had not taken the oath.
10 27 — Étaient déjà soulevés : Had already risen.
10 29 — Clisson : A town in France, in the department ol the Lower Loire.
10 80 — ^M. Henri de la Bochejaguelein, one of the most
distinguished of the Vendean royalists, was bom at Chatillon, in Poitou, in 1772, and was a son of the Marquis de Larochejaquelein.
He died on the 4th of March, 1794.
10 81 — ^M. de Lescure, another Yendean chief who especially distinguished himself in 1793, was bom m 1766 and died in 1796.
U 1 — ^Après le massacre du 10 août : The massacre of
the lOth of August (1792) was provoked by the daring manifesto of the Duke of Bruns-' wick. The Tuileries were attacked, the Swiss goaffds massacred, and Lewis XYI., together with his family» took refuge in the Temple.
PoffB 11 Une 8 — Des seigneurs poitevins : Of the noblemen of
Poitou. Un gentilhonme, a nobleman , un homme gentil^ an agreeable mau; un gaîaavt homme, a gentleman.
11 9 — Jappaient : Yelped. Aboyer^ to bark.
11 11 — ^Bâillant et s'étirant les bras : Gaping and stretching their arms.
11 17 — ^Une faible lueur : A faint glimmer.
11 17 — ^TouB les hôtes : AU the guests.
11 18 — Gomme la veille : As the day before. La veUU, the eve ; Une vielle^ a hurdy-gurdy ; vieille, old.
11 25 — ^Mon père en est : My father is one of theia.
12 10— Plutôt : Bather. Plus tât, earUer.
12 12— Le dossier : The back. The haek of the body,
le dos: the bock of the hand, le revers.
Dossier f (of lawyers) a brief .
12 20 — ^D y a en bas deux gars : There are two feUows
below.
12 27 — ^n s'avança au-devant d'eux: He went to meet
them.
12 80— Banque: Hoarse. Le tigre raugiM, the tiger
roars. From Lat. rauotM.
18 6— Saint-Florent : A town in France, in the départ-
ment of Maine-et-Loire.
18 16— Tout de suite : Immediately. De euUe, in sno*
cession.
18 18 — ^Ah I pas de ça : Don't do that.
18 19 — Des Bleus : Of the republican troops. Germ.
hlau; Eng. hlus.
18 24*-Les petits chemins : The by-paths.
18 80 — Un emportement : A hastiness.
14 10 — ^N'ont pas marché : Hâve net taken up arms. 16 4 — Et redressant : And drawing up.
16 9— Que nous n'emmènerions pas : That we should
not take with us. Mener, amener, emmener,
refer only to persons and animais. Porter,
apporter, and emporter, apply to things and
persons that oannot walk ; as : portez cette
lettre à la poste ; menez cet enfant à l'école. 16 10— En trébuchant : Stumbling. Lat. iranshuecwe ;
It. transhutcure.
16 8— -Est suspect : Is suspected. During the Beign of
Terror, to he suspected was enough to drag a
man to prison, and thence to the scaffold.
16 10— Franchir les fossés : Clear the ditches. Ub
fossé, a ditch ; une/os50, a grave ; une fossette,
a dimple.
16 26 — ^La petite pièce avait succédé à la grande : The
farce had f ollowed the drama.
16 27 — ^Les longues enjambées : The long stridaB.
Page 17 Une 6 — ^Jacqnes Oathelinean : A Yendean ohief, bom in
1759, kiUed before Nantes in 1793.
17 10 — ^Le foornil : The bake-honse.
17 18 — ^n 7 anrait en de qnoi : There wonld hâve beec
enongh. Afxtir de quoi : to be well off.
18 18 — S'accrochaient à ses jnpons : Clnng to her petti-
coats.
18 24 — Stofflet: Originally a game-keeper, he becama
commander-in-chief of the Yendean armies.
* Bom 1751, died 1796.
19 7 — ^Des recoins : Nooks and corners.
19 11 — k fen et à sang : With fire and sword. 19 12 — ^Le procnrenr-syndic : The administrator d the district.
19 14 — ^L*énergnmène : The fanatic. From Gh:. Iv«p-
yovfitvoç.
20 9 — ^L*émente: The insurrection.
20 28 — ^Le château tenait encore : The castle was still
holding ont.
21 6—11 faut faire nn coup d^édat : We mnst strike a
hea^y blow. 21 14 — ^Devaient bientôt : Were soon.
21 19 — ^Des bourgeois : Of the townsmen.
22 17 — Bonchamps (Artus de) : A Yendean chief, killed
in 1793.
22 20 — ^Haussait les épaules : Shrugged his shouldera.
23 6 — Gardons-nous de : Let us take care not to.
23 16~-Bamené lui-môme : Yielding to better feelings.
lY.
U 14 — ^Le parti pris : The course taken.
26 7 — ^Et je suis très-gentille: And I look Y&cy well
with it.
25 11 — Baccommodera : Willmend.
25 23— Effarées: Bewildered.
26 13— Tout à rheure : Presently.
26 25— Je suppose que toute la maison n'en est pas:
They don't mean, I think, to arrest the whola
household.
28 6— Interdit : Taken aback.
88 18 — On attelait : They yoked. Un attelage, a team.
ÏVom the low Latin, odtelore ; from iùli4^ an
arrow.
Page 28 Un» 16 — ^Bn g^s de service : As senrants.
28 25— Prenant tout-à-conp son parti: Making np her mind suddenly.
24 — J'espère que tous voos empresserez de rendre témoignage : Ton will, I hope, readily bear witness.
80 1—- On entendait parler : There were romonrs.
30 14— L*hôtel de yiUe : ThetownhalL
31 4 — ^n faut bien que ce soit son fils : He most be his
son.
31 20 — ^De mauvaise mine : CJ-looking.
31 80 — ^La portière : The oarriage door.
32 16 —En ricanant : Grinning. Bire^ to laugh ; sourire,
to smile.
32 20 — ^Un honnête homme: An honest man. Un
homme honnête, a polite man.
32 24 — ^D*an conp de main : By surprise.
32 30— Sur le siège : On the box (carriage).
32 31 — Par dessus le marché : Into the bargain.
33 1 — Se mirent à : Began.
33 5— Fendit la presse : Made his way through the
crowd. From Lat. f/ndere, 33 12 — ^Sœur de lait : Foster sister.
33 14 — S'était juchée à grand'peine: Had, with great
diffîeolty, climbed up. 38 19 — Sans quoi : Or else.
38 21 — Se rengorgea: Carried his head high. From
Lat. gurges, properly a whirlpool, then a
throat.
38 28 — Pour la faire taire : To keep her quiet.
34 4 — Sa figure me revient tout-à-fait, et nous serons
tout portés : His face rather pleases me, and
we shall not hâve far to go.
54 19 — Tout essoufflé : Quite out of breath. 34 22 — ^Les pratiques : The customers.
84 26— La bouche béante : Gaping. Béant, from 0. Fi;
haer, béer. Lat. haldwre. Bouger is another form of this verb. B(uyer au» corneiUee = to be star-gazing, to stand gaping.
85 1 — ^En se reprenant : Oorrecting himself.
85 11 — ^Les négociants : The merchants. Un marchami
zz a tradesman.
85 14 — ^D'indienne: Printed calico. Properly a oolouxed
ootton Btuff first made in India.
