laisse tous ces titres, 'drop ail thèse titles
1. 34. quand on arrive où fen suis, ' when one reaches the point where I now stand ' ; en has hère the force of thereof, i. e. of life.
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1. 23. je suis touché, 'I am much obliged', lit. 'affected'. 1. 31. à quelle bataille avez-vous assisté? 'in what battle hâve you fought? ' Assister à='to be présent at'.
1. 3. valet de chambre, 'gentleman in waiting'; valet {ormeT\y vaslet, from mediceval Lat. vassalettus, dim. of vussalis, is one of the very few instances where the suppression of s in the original is not indicated by the circumflex in the derivative; cp. poteau from postellus.
1. 15. qu\lle méfait, 'that he dues me' ; elle refers hère to Majesté, j'' aurais désiré pouvoir vous épargner cette peine, 'I wish I could hâve spared you this trouble', lit. I might hâve wished to be able. Note that the verbs désirer and vouloir require no préposition with the inf. that follows them. This is the case with ail verbs that are used as auxiliaries and many verbs of motion, sight, hearing, speaking, thinking; cp. p. 142, 1. I, cette femme dit vous connaître. The préposition à with an inf. used as object ahvays indicates a goal or aini, the préposition de, a point of departure, an idea of causality.
1. 16. à nous autres vieux soldats, 'but the services of old soldiers like ourselves'; autres is hère used in contradistinction; see p. 13, 1. 18.
1. 19. il se jette en arrière, 'he throws himself back in his arm-chair*.
INDEX
active for passive, p. i, 1. lo
affût, p. 37, 1. 24
agit (ils') = Lat. agilur, -p. 79, 1.
aide, m. helper, aufe, fem. help,
P; 39> 1- 37 ami, friend ; bon ami, lover à moi7ts que, requires ne and sub-
junctive, p. 29, 1. 37 amont («</ monUm)—up stream,
p. 80, 1. 3 Anciens, p. 136, 1. 3 apostiller, p. 19, 1. 28 apprendre, (i) to learn, (2) to
teach après, after ; d'après, in accordance
with, p. 19, 1. 14 Archduke Charles, p. 28, 1. S arriver (impers.), to happen article for poss. adj., p. 6, 1. 8 assister à, to be présent at, p. 11,
1. 20 assommer, p. 18, 1. 40 athées, p. 46, 1. 24 auberge, p. 100, 1. 26 aussi, at the beginning of sentence
= accordingly, p. 37, 1. 10 autres = on the contrary (nous
autres), p. 13, 1. iS auxiliary verbs avoir and être, p.
— pouvoir, devoir conjngated and not the inf. that accompanies them
aval {ad va'lem), down stream, p.
80, 1. 3 avis, p. 72, 1. 34 avoir beau, p. 16, 1. 38
bâiller, p. 23, 1. i
baiser, to kiss ; baisser, to lower ;
p. 47, 1. 16 balle = ballet ; boulet = cannon-ball Barras, p. 16, I. 39 battre, to beat ; se battre, to fight Bernadotte, p. 17, 1. 6 bétail, bestiaux, p. 100, 1. 31 <5/t'« = forsooth, p. 21, 1. i; bien (or
beaucoup requires the article bivouac, p. 51, 1. 5 bleuâtre, p. 1 26, 1. 6 botte, p. 52, 1. 34 boucher from buck, p. 99, 1. 30 brasses, p. 38, 1. 37 brave, before subst. = honest, p. 9,
ça for cela
cabrer, p. 45, I. 8
cadet, p. 142, 1. 23
calendar (Republican), p. 17, 1.
canaille, doublet of chienaille, p.
3. 1- 37 carmagnole, p. 109, 1. 21 Cassano, p. 2, I. 32 ce with verb pi., p. 26, 1. 2 cent and vingt take s, p. 6, 1. 18
INDEX
cerner, p. lo, 1. 25 chance, luck, p. 11 1, 1. 6 cha]ielct, p. 54, 1. 18 coalition, p. 137, 1. 3g complémentaire, p. 17, 1. 31 Condé, p. 139, 1. I Convention, p. 5, 1. 35 coup de grâce, p. 21, 1. 4
— feu, p. 45, 1. 7 crétin, p. 36, I. 36 cuiller, p. 54, 1. 10
dat. of person with verb of dc-
priving, p. 138, 1. 15 — of direct object with verbal expressions compounded of faire, laisser, voir, entendre, p. i, 1. 10
de before an adj., p. 9, 1. 24
— after a superlative, p. 2, 1. 29
débâcle, p. 112, 1. 38
denrées, p. 19, 1. 32
depuis with simple tense, p. 7, 1.
devoir \s\\\\ infin., p. 74, 1. 15 Directoire, p. 5, 1. 35 donner, v. n., p. 77, 1. 10
— sUn donner, to hâve a bout ofit
douter de, to doubt ; se douter de, to suspect, p. 60, 1. 13
ébranler (s'), p. 10, 1. 17
échoppe, p. 2, 1. I
embrasser, to embrace ; embraser, to set on fire
émigré, p. 4, 1. 31
emporter, to carry away; s'' emporter, to get into a passion
m and dans, \i. 80, 1. 28
C7i, redundant with autre, autrement, etc. and with numerals when the subst. is not expressed, p. 38, 1. 26
ennui, p. 4, 1. 26
entendre, (i) to hear, (2) to understand, (3) s'entendre, lo agrée
espèces (specie), p. 17, I. 17
essieu, p. 32, 1. 10
estafette, p. 58, 1. 39
étalage, p. i, 1. 14
faire, wiih infin., \i. i, 1. 10
— impers, of weather, p. 55, 1. 4
— ne faire que, ne faire que de, p. 109, 1. 6
feuille, newspaper, p. 9, I. 3 fond, de fond en eomble—\x\.\.c.x\y, p.
71,1. II fusil, p. 50, 1. 29
gaillard, p. 9, 1. 14 garde, p. 11, 1. 14 garder, to guard, keep; se garder
de, to refrain from gêner, p. 11, 1. 13 genitive after rien, quelque chose,
etc., p. 8, 1. 14 gens; adj. before is fem., after it is
masc.
glaee, from glacia, a secondary
form oi glaeies, p. 21, 1. 2 glissade, p. 35, 1. 22 gramC with fem. subst. ; grand,
hat. grandis, was originally fem.
as well as masc, hence gramf
mire, gramfpdne, etc. in which
the old fem. has survived; cp.
p. III, 1. 16 gué, p. 71, 1- 18 guère, p. 54, 1. I gueux, p. 17, 1. I
hagard, p. 102, 1. 20
hanneton, \). 36, 1. 17
Henri {Le yeune), comic opéra in two acts, in which there is a perpétuai allusion to the éducation of the Dauphin ; it was hissed on the evening of its first représentation (i May 1797) ; its author Bouilly, an ex-liberal and ex-friend of Miralieau, had niade himsclf unpopular by his Royalist sycophancy; Méhul, who had composed the music was loudly cheered ; the overtuie, a pot pourri of ail the hunting airs, was callcd for a second and third time; it was reproduccd at Uie Music.1l Fcâ-
INDEX. 1S3
Uval of 1867 at thc Palais de
l'Industrie, p. 18, 1. 35 heure, \\.o\\x; de bonne heure, early;
à la bonne heure, ail right ; à cette
heure, now, p. 7, 1. 15 huissier, usher, properly a porter,
who keeps the gale ; derived
from huis (Lat. ostiii/n) ; for h
prefixed cp. huit (octo), huile
(oleum), huître (ostrea)
inf. act. for pass. \i\ih faire, p. i,
