ce n'' est pas bien, 'it is not proper

1. 29. ces sans-culottes, 'thèse Republicans'. It was in 1791 that the term sans-culotte was first applied by the Royalists to indigent patriotism ; in a former âge it had been applied to Gilbert the indigent poet. Destiltite-of-bieeches ; 'a mournful Destitution, which however, if twenty millions share it, may become more efl'ective than most Possessions'. (Carlyle.)

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1. 5. lui, il est farti, 'he is gone'; more emphatic than lui est parti, which would be grammatically correct ; see p. 94, 1. 22.

1. 13. je ne veux pas qit'il 7n\irrive la même chose... ^\ hâve no wish to meet with the same fate as the estafette Mezenkow '. See Tableau IV, Scène xiv.

1. 19. pousse un temps de galop (Mil.), 'push on at full gallop'.

1.30. tV un boucher du pays, 'of a butcher of tlie district'. Boucher is not derived from bouche (Lat. bucca), 'mouth', but from bouc (Eng. buck), 'a he-goat ', and is properly one who kills bucks ; mfediœval bouchers, i.e. the salesaien of goats' flesh, were not allowed to sell méat of any other kind ; ullimately the name was extendcd to dealers in ail kinds of mcat.

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1. 6. le hettmann veut faire ses embarras, 'the hcttmann wishes to make a fuss', i.e. to appear important.