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24. — 7. parut un peu trop fébdal, en tenant rigueur à ce roturier de génie, qui, en somme marchait de pair avec les plus grands seigneurs, appeared rather too feudal in thus harshly treatîng this plebeian of genius, who, after ail, was treated as an equal by lords of the highest rank.

25. — 16. se donnait librement carrière, gave itself free scope.

20. Chopin (Frédéric), a great pianist and composer, was born in 18 10 in Warsaw and died in Paris in 1849. ^^ spent the last years of his life in France. He wrote a great number of very popular and masterly compositions.