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Line 3. — Slarins — The celebrated Roman genei-al. The 'allusion hère is to the manner in which, by means of his army, he made himself master of Rome and put to death vast nnmbers of his opponents. Consult a Biographical Dictionary.
Line ô. — une faible partie — A small part — Distinguish partie fem. — part, îvom parti, masc. — party.
" prélevées sur — Levied on — Exacted from.
Line b.— il fit entendre — He aUowed it to be understood — He hinted.
Line 9. — état-niajor — Staff.
Line 11. — caisses — Treasury — literally boxes — ^whence, probably, our Word, Cash. Compare similar use of Coffers.
Line 12. — besoins éventuels — The allusion is specially to the Irish Expédition. See p. 108 1. Î6.
Line 1.5. — fournisseurs — Contractors.
Liue 18. — de sang-froid — With patience.
Liue 21 — bien qu'appartenant &c.— Although himself belonging.
Line 22. — misère — "Want.
Line 23.— «'avaient— See Nou, p. 113, i. 8
Line l!0. — fripons — Scoiindrels.
Line 28. — de faire vivre— To feed.
Line 30. — ait — Subjunctive after croire.
Line 31. — coupables &•% — Criminals of his kind.
Line 33. — de si liant — From so high a quarter.
Line 35. — soudain — At once.
Line 36.— jugement— Trial
Line 37. — en butte — Exposed.
•' dans le «ein Szc. — In the législative councila.
Pa3e 115.
Line 5. — va être signée — Is about to be conclnded.
Line 6. — vous dessaisir de — Divest yourselves of — lay down.
Line 7. — fixé — Decided.
Line 10. — de tronbler — îo disturb.
Line 11. — n'alla pas àc. — Proceeded no further in ibis direction.
Line 12. — ^sein — Basom — System.
" qui met &c. — Which places the glorious deeds of noble
men in secnritj, and protects them from reverses of
fortune.
Line 15. — atteintes — Attacks.
" mal — Disease.
Line 17. — le bru x &c — The rumoirr spread that he had been poisoned. Line 21. — précédemment — Previously — on a previous occasion. Line 22. — soudoyé — Hired.
" on savait &c. — His life was kno"-vn to be serioualy
threatened.
Line 27. — en proie à — A prey to.
Line 28. — épuisé — Exhausîed.
Line 36. — nn coup de feu &c. — A shot was fired at him almost
point-blauk.
Line 38. — pour son complice — As his accomplice. * nullement — ^Vainly.
P.VGE 116.
Line 1. — 5a joie &c. — It is stated by Thiers that Hoche in his anxiety as to the resuit of the coup d'Etat, had prepared for himself and his family, means of flight to Austria, in case the Directors should not be successful in their attacks on the Legislati%-e Councils.
" lui rendit &c. — Gave him renewed strength,
2 I 2 NOTr.S.
Line 5. — P«n éloignée — ^Not far distant.
Line 10. — 'lestitna— Removed — i.e., from the command of tho Army of the Ehine.
Line 15. — il se disait (fec. — He said that he was clothed.
" Hercule — Centaure — Hercule s ha ving overcomethe Cen-
taur Nessus, the latter in revenge sent to the wife of his conqueror a poisoned robe, v^icii she presented as a gift to lier husband. The victorioiis hero put it on, when the poison began to take effect, and caused him Buch torture that he committed suicide.
Line 22. — empirique — Quaek.
Line 24. — arrêt — Sentence.
Line 25. — se vit mourir — Saw that he was dying.
Line 35. — l» remise &c. — The putting again in force.
Page 117.
Line 2. — revint sur — Eeferredto.
Line ■!. — qu'il était heureux — That it was fortunate.
Line 6. — n'eût — Subjunctive after the impersônal phrase il était
heureux.
Line 11. — congédia — Dismissed — took leave of — from congé, leave. Line 14. — crise — Attack — spasm.
Line 18. — le vainqueur &c. — Napoléon Bonaparte. Arcola and
Rivoli are places in northern Italy famous for Napo-
leon's victories. Line 21. — fit à son général &e. — Gave its gênerai a splendid and
affecting funeral.
Line 26. — Mai-eeau — A distinguished Republican gênerai who was
killed in 1796.
Line 27. — Le convoi funèbre — The funeral procession. Line 31. — en deuil — Draped in mourning.
" au son lugubre &c.— To the mournful sound of the
muffled drums, and the solemn knell of the beUs tolled
by the inhabitants of the cities and towns through
which it passed — mises en branle — hterally, set in
motion.
Line 35. — et firent &c. — And also formed a procession in honor of
the gênerai — or, joined in the procession.
Page 118.
Line 2. — allégé — Alleviated — Ughtened.
" charges — Burdens.
Line 3. — Braunfels — A town in Rbenish Prussia, X. E. of Coblenz.
Line 4. — la place ptibliqiie — The public square.
Line 5. — maison — Household.
Line 8. — vangée eu bataille — Drawn up in order of battle.
Jjine 9. — les glacis — The glacis — i.e., the smooth, Bioping ascent
leading up to the fortifications of a city or castle — so
called ou account of its ^smoothness, from glace, ice.
See Note, p. 21, 1. 30.
Line 11. — haie — Line — literally, hedge.
Line 18. — de ses tîeniers — His mite — denier, from Latin denarius,
an old French coin of the value of nearly half an Eng.
lish farthing — or, about a quarter of a cent. Line 24. — couronne — Garland.
Line 41. — CUilde HaroUl — The foUowing are the stanzas referred
to:
By Coblenz, on a ri se of gentle ground,
There is a small and simple pjTamid,
Crowning the summit of the verdant mound ;
Beneath its base are heroes' ashes hid,
Our enemy's — but let not that forbid
Honour to Marceau ! o er whose early tomb,
Tears, big tears, gushed from the rough soldier's lid,
Lamenting and yet envying such a doom,
Falling for France, whose rights he battied to résume.
