cultivateur : the more modern term for fermier. com

merçant, ‘business man.’ employé : an official in public or private

rUlce vice,

29. le boute-en- train, ‘the life and soul’: /e troudle-féte. ‘the wet nket’ or ‘ mar sport

30. toutes les corvées: originally /a cor was the unpaid our given by a serf to his lord, and still means labour bestowed on upkeep of private road say ‘disagreeable work

Page 14 |. 4. écluse: usually ‘a canal lock,’ here ‘ the mill-lade. 7. in articulo mortis, : for those about to die 16. fantassin, from Ital. fan/accino, ‘a foot-soldier.’

Page 15 |. 12. une batteuse: the modern threshing-machine,

as gradually ousted the flail ( fléau) 25. distraction, '‘i:musement.’ Page 16 1. 3. il pousse la paille, ‘he is feeding the threshing-

nine,