Ernée: a little town in the department of Mayenne

9. haie vive: guickset hedge, ‘formée d’arbustes épineux en pleine végétation” (Larousse).

20. émousses : local word from the word ‘emoussé,’ blunted ; use the same word in English.

23. Bocage: name of a little section of Normandy called Bocage Normand in the department of Calvados and Orne. There is also à Bocage Vendéen northwest of the province of Poitou, famous during the royalist insurrection of the French

revolution.