le coup part, 'the giin goes off

1. 23. une poignée de républicains athées...' z handful of atheistical Republicans frightens you'. The Révolution had abolished the Christian religion, and substituted for it the vvorship of Reason ; cp. p. 13, 1. 28.

1. 27. il fait mine de partir, 'he makes a show of moving forward'.

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1.3. il s'étend à terre tout du long, 'stretches himself down at fuU length on the ground'. See Introduction, p. x.