hauts fourneaux, blast (high) furnaces

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8. ah ca, qu'a donc% now, what is the matter with? il a , qu'il est parti sur son dada favori, nothing . . . except that he has started off on his favourite hobby-horse.

10. prenant en croupe, and has taken . , . behind him, or carrying . . . away behind him.

15. preux', lit., valiant knights ; often used as synonymous with ‘ nobles ’ of very ancient lineage. In the mediæval poems and chronicles, Neuf Preux qxq

often mentioned as warriors of renowned courage

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and tried valeur, who formed a kind of body-guard to the king :

Tranquilles cependant, Charlemagne et ses preux Descendaient la montagne et se parlaient entre eux.

A. DE Yigny, le Cor,

Monstrelet relates in bis Chronique^ which is a sequel to that of Froissart, that the neuf preux on horseback accompanied Henry vi., King of England, wben he made bis entry into Paris in 1431.

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1 1. c'est leur jour, it is their ‘ at home ’ day.

1 7. voilà qui est un peu fort, that 's rather too much.

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