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29. Elle ...temps. Compare La Fontaine’s Ze Coche et la Mouche: “ Il prenait bien son temps.”

56. —4. une ligne de là: the expression à ef là is not usually broken up in this way.

5. picorait, ficked. This word applies mostly to fowls, that pick up their food right and left.

9. à brassée, zx her two arms. Uncommon idiom. 14. Comité de Sureté Générale : one of the important committees organized by the Convention; had charge of all that re- ‘ferred to the police and had to seek all those who were considered suspicious.

21. tu. The revolutionists, especially among the people, took pleasure in using the #%ee form with every one.

58. — 10. sans-culotte: name given to the common people who did not wear breeches like the aristocracy but trousers falling half way down the legs. ça ira. See page 61, 1,

22. doigts. Translate by ‘drops.” This is a common idiom easy to account for.

59.— 7. à la régalade, to drink without letting the bottle touch the lips, by pouring the liquid intothe mouth.

18. ruelle, wa//-side (of a bed), more exactly the space between the bed and the wall. In the 17th century ruelle was a bed room where ladies received visitors. It is antiquated in both meanings.