Tour. Coil (speaking of thehair

23. Il frisait la soixantaine. He was bordering upon sixty. La soixantai7ie= environ soixante. The ending aine added to numerals makes them more gênerai. Cf., douzaine, dozen ; vingtaine, score ; trentaine f about thirty, etc.

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Pase. Linft

37. 1. Auxaîlea (du nez). Hère aile signifies the latéral cartilage of the nose, the sides of the nostrils. 13. Le Gouvernement actuel, The Second Empire under Napoléon III. (1852-1870). Cf. p. 7., 1. 15. The partisans of the Bourbon monarchy refused to become reconcilied to the Bonapartist régime, considering it a usurpation of the throne.