quelqu'un de bien, any respectable person

2. Êtes-vous allé chez chose, de la rue de Chaffaut? Hâve you been to What^s his namé's, in the Rue Chaffaut?

3. Est-ce que vous seriez l'homme? Can you be the man? The conditional is quite commonly used to express a supposition.

4. Tso-maraude. This term is explaine d in the original by the footnote : "Patois des Alpes Françaises. Chat de maraude." — Chat de maraude, rascally marauder.

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I. il se coucha à plat ventre, he laid himselfflat on the ground.

Notes, 85

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I. la rose couverte, the windmill; viz. a mill-like motion produced by twirling about a cane.

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I. les proclamatibnB de l'empereur. See page 2, note 3. According to Thiers in his Histoire du Consulat et de V Empire, the printing of the proclamations was not done at Digne, but at Cannes (see page 2, note 2), while Hazlitt, in his Life of Napoléon Buonaparte, asserts that it was not until he arrived at Gap, north of Digne, that he found means to hâve them prînted.