il s'est fait, 'he has become

1. 26. je ne vous en Jais pas t/ion compliment, 'I do not congratulate you on that score', i.e. 'that is nothing to be proud of.

1. 34. qu\'st-ce qui se passe donc ? ' What is it then that is going on ?' = '\Vhat can they be up to?'

1. 37. d'avoir assassiné. ..'Û\a.i \.\\ey\\i\à murdered the plenipotentiaries'. When the congress at Rastadt was dissolved (April 1799) '^^ French plenipotentiaries applied to the Austrian commander for an escort, but this was refused on the plea that it was unnccessary. The deputies started off therefore unprotected and, being met just outside the town by a party of drunken hussars of the Szekler régiment, were altacked ami eut down wilh sabre blows. Two of the deputies were slain, the third was left for deud in a ditcli, but rccovered and found his way to Strasbourg.

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