L'AGE
Line 2.—se substituait aux.—Took the place of.
Line 6.—se confondaient encore.— Were still united,
Line 9.—par intérim.—"Temporarily.
Line 12.—parcourut.—Took a survey of.
Line 18.—un wawdat d’amener.—A peremptory summons. Literally, a warrnnt to bring.
Line 20.—arrêt de mort.—Senter of death.
s emporté.—Transported,
Line 22.—Pitt et Cobourg.—Pitt, prime minister of England, who was regarded by French Republicans more as a malignant fiend than a human foe. All hostile movements, no matter of what nature, or in what quarter, were attributed to the diabolical enmity of Pitt. The Duke of
Saxe-Coburg was at this time commander of the allies in Belgium.
on enlève &c.
The republic is being deprived of her bravest defenders. Verbs which signify taking away, in English, are followed by fro’x : in French, by à, such as ôter, emporter.
Line 24.—et qui faillirent &c.—Which nearly cost the one wno had uttered them his life. See Note, p. 5, 1. 338.
Line 26.—mit par éerit.—Put in writing. Par écrit is frequentlÿ used as an adjective with the meaning ‘ written,” as sûreté par écrit, written security.
Line 27.—mémoires,.
Masculine when it means memoir ; feminine when it means memory.
Line 38.—toute particulière.—Altogether peculiar—special. É que reclamait,—Demanded by. See Note, p. 2, 1. 20.
Flying columns.
Line 3.—insaisissable, —Invisible—literally—that could not be got hold of.
Line 6.—1l’Ouest.—Sound st in ouest and est (East). Line 10,—operée.—Effected.
Line 2.—colonnes mobiles.
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Line 20.—qu’il faut &c.—which must be occupied,
Line 22.—détails.—Besides the nouns inentioned in }). K. 39, a few others in a! and ail form their plural by adding 8, but they are not very commonly met with.
Line 24.—Carnot.— A celebrated mathematician and tilitary engineer. While commanding the Army of the North he defeated the Austrians at Wattignies ; he was a member of the Committee of Public Safety, and afterwards Minister of War. .
Line 25.—Fleurus.—A town of Belgium in the province of Hainault, situated on the Sambre. Here Marshal Jourdan, in 1794, defeated the allies under the command of the Prince of Saxe-Coburg. In consequence of this defeat Belgium was evacuated by the allies.
Line 28.—Douai.— A town near the Flemish frontier, in the extreme North of France.
Line 31.—sans s’'émouvoir.— Without showing emotion.
Line 32.—et qu'il &c.—$Sec Note, p. 5, 1. 88.
Line 35.—je vous fais passer.—T send you -literally—]I cause to pass to you.
Line 1.—qu'il est d’un &c.—That it is the work of a young man
Line 2.—traduit.-—Summoned.
Line 8.—les représentants &c.—The Committee of Public Safety was represented at the headquarters of all the French armies by persons appointed to supervise the action of the generals, and to report to Paris. These representatives frequently interfered in the conduct of the war, and in military matters of which they had no practical knowledge. It was this interference with his plans, and the unfairness of their reports as to his share of the glory of the French victories that led to the enmity between Hoche and the Committee, and finally to his imprisonmnent,.
Line 10.—soient,—Subjunctive after jusque à ceque. D. F. 628.
Line 11.—sûr.—Distinguish sûr and sur, adjective and preposition —derived from Latin securus and super respectively.
Line 1$.—ce qu’on voudra.— Whatever they please. In English the present tense is used in subordinate propositions, even when the reference is to future time, e.g., I shall tell him when I seehim. French,Je le lui dirai quand
je le verrai.
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