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PART II—CHAPTER I

INSURRECTION IN LA VENDEE-—THE ROYALIST LÉÈADERS—-FIRST PACIFI- CATION OF THE COUNTRY — RESUMPTION OF HOSTILITIES — THE CHOUANS —PUISAYE—EFFORTS TO OBTAIN AID FROM ENGLAND— HOCHE IN COMMAND OF THE ARMY OF THE CHERBOURG COASTS.

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Line 4-—La Vendée—Sce Note, p.19, 1. 82. In translating use

La Vendée as the name of the department: ni Vendée, or The Vendée.

Sagné-— Reached.

VAnjou &c.—For the position cf these consult à map of France giving the old provinces, not the modern üepartments.

Line 6.—très-boisées—Well-wooded—from bois, wood.

Line 12.—frappés Wounded,

Line 16.—en permanence Ser Note p. 47, 1. 2.

Line 18.—se souleva la première-—"Vas the first to rise,

Line 19.—enfanta— Give birth to—produced.

Line 20.—roturiers Plebeians.

Line 21.—voiturier—Carrier—teamster.

Sarde-chasse- Game-kecper. See Note mi he

Line 24. l’Achille lhe Achilles—Achilles, a Thessalonian Prince, was the most distinguished of the Grecian leaders at the time of the Trojan War.

battirent—Defeated—battre, to beat—se battre, to fight.

Line 27.—fougue—Ardour.

Line 29.—les foudro; aieni—Destroyed them--mowed them down

—literally, thundeïstrnick. L'rom foudre—thunä:rbolt.

Pace 6 Line 1.—tour à toux—.Sy turnr

1e after another, Line 4.—Loire—A larye an.

1 important river of France, rising in Languedoc, flowing North as far ag Orleans, whence it flows West into the L2.; of Biscay,

Line 19,—Kléber— One of the most famous French generals—after. wards à favone officer of Napoleon,

Line 20.—Fprouvèrent—Experienced.

Line 95.—pour obtenir &o.

her.

Line 26.—1a Mauche—T;.0 English Channel,

la order to obtain a “istance from

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