I. moyenne, moderate

4. Reine Hortense (b. 1783, d. 1837). Some time Queen of Holland, she was the step-daughter of Napoléon Bonaparte, by his wif e J oséphine, sister of Eugène Beauharnais. Endowed vrith great musical talents, she wrote the music of a romance, composed in 1809 by M. de Laborde, Partant pour la Syrie, which the Second Empire tried in vain to impose on the French people as a national song, instead of the Marseillaise, then considered too revolutionary.

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6. c'est très fort, ça, that is very clever. About ça, see end of note on p. 42, 1. 11.