la Beauce, one of the richest provinces in France

35. un chartreux, 'aCarthusîan monk.' 'Charterhouse'» house of * Chartreux.'

39-40. Je me sentis. J'aimais. N,B, the différence of tenses.

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the first, pàst indefinite (preterite), putting forward a new fact — he now began to feel happy; the second, past imperfect, explaintng the above-mentioned fact.

45-6. Bonaparte, Nap61éoxL Captain Renaud by the fonner means the man himself ; by the latter, which is Bonaparte's Christian name assumed by him when he was crowned Ëmperor — princes being always called by their Christian names — Captain Renaud means the great Emperor, dispenser of crowns, favours and riches.