Ça me fait deuil, it grieves me. To-day the

word deuil means regulafly only mourning and the word douleur serves to convey the idea of physical or moral pain or grief in other cases. In old French the distinction was not made, and there are many examples of the word deuil used in this sensé of douleur or peine. The use of the word in modem Normal patois is a survival of the language of the 12thand 13th centuries.

35. 16. ayant passé ma culotte, having slipped into my trousers. Other idiomatic uses of the

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verb passer are: passer une quinzaine, to spend a f ortnight ; passer une page, to leave out a page; passer une faute, to overlook a mistake. The reflexive : trois jours se passèrent, three days elapsed; se passer de quelquechose, to dispense with something. 35. 28. Comment que ça a pris? = comment est-ce que ça a pris? How did it start?