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i comedy, "le I'hilinte de M month was divided into :

The Republ abolished January I, 1806 3. Cayenne. In Frenc', where, for m

motives, were transporte!. On account of the unhealtl.;. mate oi Cayenne. New Caledonia is now preferred. 4. un déporté, ii prisoner. One condemned to transportation to a pénal colony. 5. J'avais ordre de traiter cet individu avec ménagement, / A orders to Jui'e A d for

this I /. 6. Directoire. Tké 1 The form of

government which succeeded the Convention, the last of the thre. Assemblies of the Révolution. There were hve

Directors, from fear of the despotism of one man, but this divi-

sion of the executive power led to anarchy and weakness, and Bonaparte overthrew the Directory with hardly any résistance, on his return from Egypt (18 Brumaire), November 9, 1799. 7. la ligne, the eqnator. 8. fermée de si près, so well closed. 9. Vous avez tout au plus seize &XL&,you are hardly sixteen years old. 10. Le bâtiment peut rouler tant qu'il veut sans rien déranger, the ship may roll as mttch as she phases, without disturbing anything. The word bâtiment signifies also a building. 11. Mon parquet était ciré et frotté comme de l'acajou, my floor was waxed, and wiped as clean as if it were mahogany.

Page 11. — 1. On s'y amusait souvent d'une fière façon, there was often great amusement on board. We must consider une fière façon as an adverbial phrase équivalent to very much, highly. 2. Lui me dit, said to me. Note the emphatic use of lui, moi, toi, as subjects in modem French. In Old French, the nominatives, il, je, tu, were always used. 3. n'auraient fait, would hâve done. The ne has no négative meaning. 4. vous allez le voir, you will see. The le does not refer to the man, but to a whole clause understood : how he acted. Le, used instead of an adjective or a clause, is the only true neuter which is left in the French language. 5. Ça me faisait plaisir à voir, moi, it pleased me to see that. Ça for cela is used only in familiar style. The whole sentence is idiomatic. 6. c'est gentil à vous, it is nice on your part. 7. madame, the lady. The French use monsieur, madame, mademoiselle for politeness, without the name of the person. Such expressions are rendered in English : the gentleman, the lady, the y oung lady. cette grande coquine de lettre, that la?ge letter. The word coquine does not mean hère rascal or rogue, but is merely used as a superlative to emphasize the adjective grande. 9. Ça faisait vraiment de bons petits enfants, they were indeed good little children. Faire is used in many idiomatic expressions ; compare the above sentence with il faisait l enfant, he acted like a child, he played the part of a child, il faisait le fou, he pretended to be crazy. 10. je vous

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ferai gronder par votre mari, allez, / shall ha

w v m I /'/. 11. et la connaissance se fit comme ça, i

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with ( 3 je me mettais à lin