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et tout sera dit, 'and thcre it will end

1. 31. nous autres, ' we unlucky wighls'; a///rt'^ implies 'in contradistinction' ( = on the other hand), and gives emphasis to nous.

1. 34. les courses au bois de Boulogne, 'the drives in the Bois de Boulogne' ; a favourite park outside the Paris walls.

1. 35. Le ycune Henri, Opéra-Comique by Bouilly, is only remarkable for its royalist sycophancy ; Phrosiiie et JMéltdor, a wretched opéra by Arnault wilh music by Méhul. See Index.

1.40. assomment les patriotes, 'keep on felling the patriots', i. e. speak of exterminating them. Assommer is properly 'to crush under a pack' and is derived from somme, 'a burdea', Low Lat. salma.

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