prolongez le village, 'spread along the village

1. 32. Portez armes! Arme bras! 'Shoulder arms ! Slope arms!' The expressions used in the Eng. drill are : ' Shoulder arms ! Présent anus ! Advance arms ! Slope arms ! Order arms ! Stand at ease !' Our régulations prescribe : 'When soldiers standing with shouldered arms receive the command Sloiu (or Quick) March, they will step off remaining a! the Shoulder ; when the word is Double Alarch they will corne to

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1. 17. faites attacher les pétards, 'fix the pétards' (powder-bags). Note faites attacher and not attachez, because the thing commanded is to be done vicariously and not by the person himself to whom the order is given ; so also lower A.o\^\\ faites avancer, 'move forward',

1. 19. faites avancer la i''' compagnie de la 38', 'move forward the ist company of the 38th (half-brigade)'. The Révolution, which altered cverything, substituted the terni demi-brigade, fem., for the old word régiment, masc; hcnce a Republican and a Royalist would hâve spuken of a régiment (in 1799) the one as fem. the other as masc.

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1. 5. cest moi.. -le bourgmestre, 'I am the burgomaster' (Germ. biirgermeister). The disjunctive pronouns moi, toi, lui, etc. are always iised afler c'est (or ce sont, with a plur. of the third person) expressed or understood ; also when the pronoun stands alone or follows a préposition or conjunction.

1. 11. on ne vient pas les ruiner de fond en comble, 'one shoukl not corne and ruin them utterly' ; fond (Lat. yi<rt(/«j) = 'foundation', comble (Lat. c«w;//«j-) = 'summit'.

1. 18. existc-t-il un gué, 'is there a ford' ; gué is from Lat. vadum ; for v=gu cp. vespa= guêpe. The euphonie t in existe-l-il properly belongs to the verb ; it is the characteristic letter of the third person which has persisted in the interrogalive form, as being euphonious. See Inde.x at letter t.

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1. 17. à cette heure, je vois que vous êtes un brave homme, ' now, I see that you are an honest man ' ; ?/« homme brave = ' a courageous man '.

L 33. s^il n^arrive pas d autres avis...'i{ we get no intelligence to the contrary we shall abide by them' ; avis, from à and vis (Lat. visum), in Old Fr. meant 'opinion', 'way of seeing a thing'. The medicPval expression was il ni est à vis (my opinion is) ; à and vis were afterwards uniied to form avis.

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1. 9. de nous passer sur le corps, 'to overthrow us'. 1. 11. le 3 vendémiaire, 'the 24 September' {1799). See Note, p. 17. 1. 31.