pont. See

lOi. la veille, ' on the day before/ Compare ' on Tuesday' = mardi»

144 NOTES. [en. TL

lOi. * If they had taken me away from the army,* pluperfect subjunçtive elegantly used instead of pluperfect indicative after su See Ch. i. 1. 129.

108. le sien, ' his own,' t,e, master, my father's master, i.e. Bonaparte.

que repeats * parce qtu,^ III. bonnes . . . enfants, ' fit only to ensnare children.' 113. J'étais étourdi, enivré, 'I fait dazed, intoxicated.' U4. Je travaillai . . . fou, *I worked till I thought I should go mad,' lit. 'enougfa to become mad from it.' N,B, the idiom à and inf.

iiç. 'Marengo.* The battle of Marengo, in the upper Valley of the Po (Northern Italy), I4th June 1800, — Bonaparte*s great victory that brought the whole of Europe to his feet.

18 brumaire (çth November 1799), the 'coup d*état' by which Bonaparte arbitrarily and unconstitutionally overtumed the existing government and established a new constitution, the Consulate under three consuls, himself being

* First Consul.'

120. l'Empire, 'the Empire,' i,e. the change from the Republican constitution to the Impérial form of government. me tint parole, ' kept the word he gave me.*

122. cette lettre que voici, * this letter hère,' lit. * which see hère' — (z'<?/j, *see,*îV/, *here').

123. porte-feuille, * pocket-book,* plural porte-feuilles^ compound noun now considered as a single noun. Porte (third person présent indicative oi porter , *to bear')and feuille, f.

* leaf * (Lat. folia, neuter plural mistaken for féminine singular, hence the gender in French).