mettre flamberge au vent, ' to draw our swords

Flamberge {flanc, ' side,' and Germ. bergcn, ' to cover ') was originally the name of the sword of Montauban, a knightpaladin of Charlemagne's time, whose exploits hâve been celebrated by the great Italian poet Ariosto (1474-1533).

, , 27. Guillaume Tell is the celebrated Swiss hero whose feat in shooting an apple off his son's head with an arrow is universally known. Schiller has made him the subject of one of his most famous dramas, Wilhelm Tell.

,, 28. Arnold: Arnold von Melchthal, Stauffacher, and Walther Fiirst were the three leaders of the conspiracy of the Griitli, which had for its object the independence of Switzerland, and freed that country from the Austrian yoke.

66. 22. de fait : cf. cela serait bien son fait, ' it would be just the

thing for him ' ; il est au fait de la chose, ' he knows ail about W \ je lui ai dit son fait, ' I gave him a pièce of my mind. '

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