un terrain vague attenant à notre maison, a

vacant ht next to our house.

34. environ vers oe temps, somewhere about this time. 47.— 17. Mably. See Note 44-2.

17. Rousseau. Jean- Jacques Rousseau, a philosopher who exercised a powerful influence in France in the 18th century. Araong his mbst famous writings may be mentioned VÊrnilt, les Gonfession8 f and le Contrat social. He probably did more than any other one man to prépare the minds of the people for the French Révolution.

25, vous attendre à ce qu'il y eût, to expect that there wovJd be.

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47.— 31. de la république et de l'empire, of the Republic and the Empire; i. e., froin the time of the Révolution until the battle of Waterloo — covering the period of the reign of Napoléon I.