il faut que ce ne soit pas it cannot be

1. 12. que sais-je? Need I go on with my enumeration? literally, what do I know (i.e. how can I hâve any recollection) of a list of obscure individuals ?

1. 18. de bonne onde mauvaise compagnie, respectable or the reverse.

qui faisaient ejifin leur métier... who, after ail, did their business.

1. 24. Prononciez-vous Rcveniez-vous — si vous prononciez., .si

vous reveniez The interrogative form gives a picturesque charac-

ter to the sentence.

1- 33' ^^ àci^t arrivée, en corresponds hère to the Latin indc.

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1. I. ce période. When the subst. péi'iode is masculine, it means the highest point, the pitch, the critical epoch.

1. 9. Les Russes et les Autrichiens. The second Coalition, between England, Russia, Austria, Turkey, and Naples, was made during the winter of 1798 — 99, while the Congress of Rastadt was still sitting. War was renewed on the continent in Feb. 1 799, and the Russian and Austrian armies, united under the famous Russian gênerai, Suwarofï, expelled the French from Lombardy in ihe summer of that year.

1. 10. de grandes victoires en Italie. Surrendering of Alexandria, July 22, 1799; of Mantua, July 30; battle of Novi, August 16.

I. 13. youhert (Barthélémy-Catherine) [1769 — 1799], equally distinguished for his courage, his modération, and his disinterestedness.