des intelligences, 'friends secretly working for us

1. 35. Directoire. The Directory was a council of fîve members, to which the executive power was delegated by the Constitution of 1 795 ; it took the place of the Convention which had ruled since 1792, and was in its turn supplanted by the Consulate in 1799.

1. 40. plus vite que iîous ne V espérions, 'faster than we expected'. After a comparative of superiority or inferiority ne accompanies the verb unless the first part of the comparison is négative. This ne is accounted for by the négative idea implied (e.g. we did not expect it so soon).

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1. 8. de îa main, 'with his hand'; the article {le, la, les) is used in French instead of the possessive adj. [son, sa, ses, etc.), whenever it can be done without ambiguity.

1. 18. à deux cents lietics plus loin que la Suisse, 'two hundred leagiies beyond Sw-itzerland' ; cent and vingt take s when multiplied by another numéral and followed iiiinudiately by the subst.

1. 21. je te conseille de les plaindre...'' Y\\.y them by ail means' (ironicaily); 'they had but to stay at home', i. e. 'why did they not stay at home? '

1. 32. un véritable boyau, ' a mère gut of a slreet ' ; i. e. 'a mère alley'.