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Line 29.—faute de—Tor want of.
«6 mise en déroute-—Routed,
Line 30.—en essayant— While attempting.
Line 31.—Savennay-—A map of France or a larger scale than is found in most school atlases, will be necessary to show the position of all the places mentioned in this and the following chapters. Most of them may be found in Keith Johnston’s Handy Royal Atlas.
Line 83.—tués— Who had been killed,
Line 35.—imis en œuvre—Put in operation.
Pace 51.
Line 1.—en tous sens—]In all directions.
Line 2.—le fer et 1a flamme--[n English, we change the order and say—fire and sword.
Line 8.—ils ranimeèrent—They thus rekindled the flame of insurrection which was on the point of dying out.
Line 18.—guerre de partisans—A party war—a guerilla warfare. Line 14.—-fondant &c.—Falling unexpectediy on. Line 15.—de derrière &c.—-From behind the hedges, from the shelter of copses, from the bottom of ravines. Lire 18.—chouannerie—This kind of warfare is generally known as guerilla war. À Line 19.—<" ‘bandiers pour le sel__Salt-smugglers. As there 3 heavy duty on this necessary of life, it was one ae articles most industriously and persistently smuggled.
US faux sauniers—literally—false salters—.e., contraband dealers in salt, Line 21.—chouette—Owl—diminitive of chouan, which is a corruption of chat-huant—literaily, hooting-cat.
Line 24.—couru—Scoured, Line 25.—-réquisitionLevy—a demand made by the government for men or money, Line 29.—doué—Endowed, Line 30.—dès l’origine—From the very beginning, Line 82,—du Perche—An old province of France, on the Hure :nd Loire.
«e La Constituanie—The National and Constituant Assembly—the name taken by the representative element: of the States-General in 1789.
Lino £4.—nlus tard—Afterwarde.
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Line 37.—souplesse—Adaptability—power of adapting himself to circumstances.
Line 89,—propre-—Well fitted,
Pace 59,
Line 1—un grand ascendant A powerful ascendancy. The form ‘ascendant ” was commonly used by English writers of last century.
Line 7.—a enlever—To cut off,
Line 10.—et nouant &c.—And skilfully uniting all the threads of the insurrection.
Line 12,—faisant défaut—Failing,
Line 16.—Monsieur-The eldest brother of the King of France was generally known by this name.
Line 25.—s’ttait propagée-JTad spread—propagée agrees with se, which is the direct object. See Note, p. 57, 1. 5,
Line 31.—ne dépassaient pas—D;id not exceed.
Line 33.—le long d’un &e.—Along a hilly country,
Line 36.—exaltée Excited,
