TABLEAU V

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The scène of this Tableau is on the North slde of the Saint-Gothard pass, at the bridge of Andermatt. The French gênerai Lecourbe is posted at the entrance of the village, determined to delay the Russians as long as possible and to blow up the bridge if necessary. After repelling their first attack he learns through the spy Ogiski that the Austrian gênerai Auffenberg is coming down the Maderaner Thaï towards Amstag, in his rear, and he accordingly blows up the bridge at Andermatt and retires down the Valley of the Reuss after giving directions for destroying also the Devil's bridge behind him.

1. 16. qit'cst-ce for qui est-ce. The interrogative pronoun qui is used of persons, que (and quoi) of things ; quoi is either alone (qitoif) or accompanied by a prej^osition before or after it (à quoi bon î quoi di plus beau ?)

1. 23. qu est-ce qui se passe donc? ' what then is going on?'

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1. 27. tant pis four vous, 'ail the worse for you'; Lat. tauto pcjiis. Page 67.

1. 14. ils descendent dans les Lignes Grises, 'they (the Russians) are coming down into the Grau Bund' . The Lignes Grises are the mountain groups that lie between the Eastern and Western branches of the Upper Rhine, the Hinter 2iïià. Vorder Rhein.

1. 21. qii'il sonne tout de suite de sa corne, ' let him at once blow his horn'.

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1. 12. sur la côte, 'up the hill-side'; côte (V.?^\.. costa), is properly 'a ril)'.

1. 23. si c'étaient les républicains, 'if it was the Republicans'. Note that c'est, c\'tait, takes the plural form ce sont, c'étaient, when a plur. suhst. follows the verb ; cp. p. 26, 1. 2.