garçon de ferme bouvier, herdsman on afarm

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3. homme de peine. Littré gives the foUowing définition : " Homme de peine, gens de peine, homme, gens qui» sans avoir un métier déterminé, gagnent leur vie par des travaux pénibles de corps/' Translate, man-of-allwork.

1. Montenotte is a village of northern Italy, 26 miles west of Genoa. It was there that Bonaparte won his fîrst victory over the Austrians then allied with the Piedmontese.

2. du 2 floréal an IV. The French republican calendar fixed upon the midnight preceding the autumnal equinox of 1 792 as the beginning of a new era. The year was divided into 12 months, each of 30 days, to which new names were given. Floréal, Flower month, was the name of the 8th, extending from the 2ist of April to the 20th of May. Accordingly, " 2 floréal an IV " corresponds with the 22d of April, 1 796.

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I. Bicêtre, a large hospital near Paris, formerly (up to 1837) included within its walls a prison for culprits mostly condemned to the galleys. They were kept there until their number had increased sufHciently to form a " chain."

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