de ses nouvelles = des nouvelles d'elle, viewsfrom her

25. Alexandre I. (Paulowitch), 1777-1825, ascended the throne

in 1801, and succeeded lus father, Paul I., in whose murder he is supposed to hâve had a share. The flrst years of his reign were marked by nsefol reforms. He took Finland from Sweden and several provinces from Persia and Turkey. In 1812 war broke out between him and Napoléon, which ended in the disastrous retreat of the French from Rossian territory. He then succeeded in forming a coalition against France, which resulted in the overthrow of Napoléon. He signed, after the battle of Waterloo, the treaty of the Sainte Alliance with Prussia and Austria, and died at Tangarog. This prince was undoubtedly one of the most distingnis^ed of his time. Napoléon, in his MemoriaZf styles him : " Un vrai Grec du Bas Empire."

29. n'en était devenu que ; en = pour cela ; i.e. que les prisonniers dTschom n'étaient pas du nombre, had on thata4xount becomeall the more . . . ; ne . . . que, vnZy ; lit. had only become.

6L 7. qui l'avaient amené which had hrought it about, to pass.

22. Poufiratcheff ( Yemelka), a Cossak and one of the impostors

who tried to pass themselves off as the Tzar Peter lit. , who had died ten years before. He invaded Little Russia at the head ofa large army, commîttm^ ÇC%^\. ÇiT\3L'âiSàK^\si'^'^^^Ks^& be travened. He weU-nîgh took. ^o^Qr«>\ssaX^\3'^aw^'î^

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06. 22. by his companions, he was handed over to the Impérial trooiM, and put to death in Moscow in 1775. He was bom at Gimoreisk, on the Don, in 1726. Little Russia comprised the provinces of Karkov, Kiev, Tchernigov, and Pnltava.

24. Lopouloff s'était plus étroitement lié avec eiix ; lit. had bound himself more narrowly (tightly) ; the bonds o/friend' ship had become doser hetween iMm and Lopouloff,

27. leurs entreUexis ne roulaient que sur ; lit. their conversation did but (roll) revolve upon ; their oiUy topie of conversation toas ah&uJt ; or better stiU, she aind thepropUûms . . . fumished the sole topic of their conversation,