veulerie, '' weakness

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12. la carrière préfectorale, not the career of a prefect, but a clerkship, probably, in a prefect's office.

14. nu quartier perdu, "a remote quarter." 20. promenaient leurs désirs, ''aîred tbeir feelings." 23. à brûle-pourpoint, "point-blank." Tirer sur quelqu'un à brûle pourpoint is to shoot so close that tke powder bums tke person's doublet.

30. des ménagements à garder, '' discrétion to be observed.'* 49. — 9. très avancé, *'very advanced in bis opinions." 12. filer, to **sbadow."

50. — 17. présenter le flanc, i.e. ** to lay one's self open te." 51. — 6. Que de reconnaissance, ''How much thankf ulness " (I owe you). Like beaucoup de, combien de, etc. * 20. le prendra peut-être en gré, " will perhaps take to bîm." 25. Proudhon, Pierre Joseph, 1809-1865, the most celebrated name among French socialists. In 1848 he was elected a member of the Constituent Assembly. He founded several journals, ail short-lived. In 1858 he published his work **De la justice dans la révolution et dans l'église," for which he served a term of two years in prison. ** La Propriété c'est le vol *' is the title of his most famous pamphlet.

25. Cabet, Etienne, French communîst, was born in 1788 and died at St. Louis, Mo., in 1856. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies in 1831, founded a journal, had to flee to Ëngland, but was amnestied in 1839. Then he wrote " Histoire populaire de la révolution française de 1789 à 1830." In 1848 he founded in Texas a communistic settlement called Icaria, which was removed to Nauvoo, 111., in 1850, and to Adams Co., la., in 1857.

52. — 1. Palais Bourbon, where the Assembly, or Chamber of Deputies, sits.

1. d'huissier en garçon de bureau, " from doorkeeper to offioeboy," in successive rooms.

12. Voilà qui = cela, 23. prétendes-vous, *• do you intend ? " 25. la plus retentissante, " that which bas the most glory.*' 53.-3. énerguméne, "a fanatic." It is a theological term

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derived from the Greek, meaning " worked upon (by the devil)." Our Word ** energy " cornes from the same source.