faillit les heurter, came near running against them

1 1. — 4. à tégal de, fully as well as.

9. Vienne, Vienna ; in German Wien, în Latin Vindobona; the capital of the Austrîan empire. It is situated upon the right bank of the Danube, at a distance of 1390 kil. east of Paris. It bas a population of 1,001,999 inhabitants.

25. Paganini, born in Genoa, Italy, in 1784, died at Nice in 1840. After having studied music at Genoa and Palermo

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under the best masters, he was attachée to the court of Eliza, sister of Napoléon. He came to Paris in 1831 and gave fifteen concerts, which drew enormous crowds. He left an immense fortune. The works of this famous violinist were printed by his son in 1852.