CHAPTER I

Page 3. — 1. Laurctte ou le Cachet Rouge. / Uk the A'

the King and hia i

Dame In blank t<> bc fil) thc penoi

• (I kept tl a dct

during tfa oi thewretcbed K 2 Aitois.

e ol an old cour.* ni ol

France, ol which Arra

il. 3. Flandre. 1 ne okl province of i

of which a part n n of

Louis X I V Ht in

thc M

possr ilukes o:

Valois, o( whon Chu les thc Boid but 4. Mois de

mars 1815. In Frencb, names of d.iys oi thc week ai

tha arc DOl written wilh capital letters. The

hère to thc flight of Louis XVI II to Ghent, du the I [undred I >ays (rc turn

Waterloo) 5. que je n'ai point oubliée depuis.

Note raie ment <>f past partidple

conjugated with avoir. 6. il pleuvait à verse, il was raming

in torrents. 7„ Joconde. A comic opéra by Nicolas Isouard (Nicolo), wbich was very popular in the beginning of this century; the music is graceful and melodious. Joconde is also a celebrated painting by Leonardo da Vinci ; it is the portrait of Mona Pisa, wife of Francesco del Giocondo. The Joconde is in the square parlor at the Louvre, in Paris. 8. La maison du Roi, the guards of the King, called also gardes du corps. 9. Louis XVIII. Formerly count of Provence, brother of Louis XVI. 10. Bonaparte. The royalists called Napoléon Bonaparte, or rather Buonaparte, giving him his title of General, but not that of Emperor, as they would seem to do, did they call him Napoléon. 11. la flamme tricolore de leurs lances, the tricolored pennon of their tances.

Page 4. — 1. j'entendis résonner le fourreau de fer de mon sabre sur l'étrier, / heard the sound of the iron scabbard of my sabre striking against 7ny stirrup. 2. qui pataugeaient dans les ornières, that were splashing up the mud in the ruts. 3. elles étaient hérissées par l'eau, the water had made them bristle. Note agreement with the subject of the verb of past participle conjugated with être. 4. Devoir, Dnty. The motto of Alfred de Vigny, and the subject of this story, as explained in Introduction. 5. têtes si blondes ou si blanches, heads so blonde or so white, or, more freely, snch young 7nen or such oldmen. 6. si cavalièrement risqué, risked so lightly. 7 qu'il ne se peut soustraire à nulle des dettes de l'Honneur, that he cannot shirk any of the debts of H on or. An unusual position of the object pronoun in nineteenth century French, but very common in seventeenth century. We generally say: il ne peut se soustraire. 8. ce que c'était que, what was. A gallicism.

Page 5. — 1. Je voyais bien ce mystérieux instinct lier, de toutes parts, les peuples en de puissants faisceaux, / saw, indeed, this mysterious instinct bindi?îg the nations, o?t ail sides, into powerful bands. A difficult sentence, which should be carefully noted. 2. une obéissance clairvoyante et intelligente, a clear-sighted and intelligent obédience. 3. le Destin

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4 en marchant au gié de mon cheval

my horst. 5 la raie liquide se délayait dans la terre liquide. M//. cans

6 un courant de vaae et de platie, i 7 Lille.

In 1708.

Page 6—1. je gagnai du terrain lur cet objet

2 la voiture dune cantinieie. : fa wagon 3. je lui fia faire force de rames. / rowrd

I I :is à, / u 5. Les loues l'embour-

baient jusqu'à l'essieu, thé wki n tk< ///..

6 le dos voûté à la manière des vieux officiers d infanterie qui ont porté le sac