CHAPTER I

Pack i.

1. 8. du 27 juillet 1830. The first day of the July Revolution, otherwise known as "the Three Days," or "/a grande se/naine." It resulted in the abdication of Charles X. and the accession of Louis Philippe, Duke of Orleans, head of the younger branch of the Bourbons. Those who fell in the street fighting during the three days are commemorated by the Colonne de Juillet, erected on the site of the Bastille.

1. 9. Son, representing an objective genitive, 'the recollection of it.' See E.B. 64 a.

1. 11. devant — think what avant would have meant, E.B. 63. The comparison is rather an odd one.

1. 12. que n'en avait. E.B. 291. After a negative sentence the clause following the comparative does not always take ne. For what does en stand?

celui de Paris. Repeat the noun (calme) in English, which does not readily use 'that of.' In translating use the adjective 'majestic' rather than the noun 'majesty.'

1. 13. Les boulevards, the broad streets of Paris and other towns with rows of trees on each side ; so called because such promenades were originally laid out on dismantled fortifications. The word comes from the German Bolhvcrk, English bulwark.