résolus. The reflexive is more common in this sense

1. 4. les réputations de bulletin. Our phrase is ' to be mentioned in despatches.'

1. 10. la Bcauce. The plain about Orleans, a famous corn-growing country. It was de Vigny's own district.

1. 11. chartreux, 'Carthusian.' The original home of the order, which was founded in 1084, is 'la grande Chartreuse,' near Grenoble. The monks live in separate dwellings like the Egyptian hermits, and spend most of their time in silence. Our word Charterhouse is a corruption of Chartreuse, and has nothing to do with 'house.'

1. 20. sans rien tenir de, 'without owing anything to'; tenir often means 'to have received,' E.B. 120 (2), example. So parents are ceux dont on tient la vie. The meaning is a little extended in tenir de son pire, to take after one's father; il a de qui tenir.

1. 25. revenir. As in many Latin words (e.g. reddere), the meaning of 'back' is lost, and re means simply 'to its proper place.' So remettre, to deliver up.

L 29. je ne cessais, E.B. 290 (1).