fort, "shrewd," "sharp

22. Vous moquez-vous du monde corresponds to the English ex. pression, "Hâve you taken leave of your sensés?" Monde hj&re means "people."

156. — 4. un homme à la mer, " a man overboard." 7. esprits forts generally means "freethinkers." The term is hère applied to politics.

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7. désinvoltnre, a bearing and manners which bespeak the most perfect ease and assurance.

8. yoni les valei bien, ' ' yon are as good as they, any day '* {bien). 157* — 1. ministrables, a newly-coined word, meaning tbose

available for the office of prime minister.

8. votre heure à vous is only tbe répétition of the possessive votre in another f orm.