Patrie, our native land, a word more appealing

to the feelinga than Pays^ which dénotes rather the political and geographical unity, while patrie emphasizes the idea that our country is the land of our fathers. The first Une of the Marseillaise: '^Allons, enfants de la Patrie*' would be ludicrously spoilt, if pays were used for patrie, even if the rhythm and rhyme were good.

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10. — 5. Crétin c'est né, crétin ça mourra^ once an idiot, always an idiot. Note the use of the oontemptuous ce, ça, This form is, however, also used when no oontempt is expressed, in familiar ianguage.

14. ça, cf. the preceding note. In English we must suppiy the verb after such expressions: that thing is I 8. . . .quejepenaey as I think, or, asit seems to me. The form que is explained by supplying à ce before it.

11. — 2. SchakOy shako, the word is found in Webster's Dictionary.

8. Accent du Piémont — Piedmont, Italian Fiedemonte (foot of the mountain), name of the Italian province on the East of the Western Aips, with Turin as its capital. The Ianguage of Piedmont is, of course, Italian. Piedmont was the principal part of the former kingdom of Sardinia.

14. ...ne 8* y reconnaîtrait pas , would not findhis way, or, would not know what to make of it.

17. Oaîm£nt for gaiement, both forms appear in the text; the former is more generally found in poetry.

21. Les chasseurs français, the French rifles, cluisseurs being the generic term for the men doing this kind of service (light infantry). Literally, chasseur is a hunter.

1^«— 1'3'« ..-pareils à des Basques, similar to Basques, a people of the South West of France, of the

Tftge Line*

région of which Bayonne is the principal city.

They speak a language of their own, quite

distinct from ail the other old dialects of

France or Gaul.

13.— 21. Nous mettrons le couvert, we shall set the table. 14. — 12. ,,, chasseur de chamois, chamois hunter. Note

that in this phrase the word chasseur has no

military significance.