On vous en a donné à garder. En donner à

garder à qudqu?un. Fig. and fam. To impose upon somebody.

100. — ^15* Du haut des pyramides quarante siècles ont contemplé vos fiançailles, A paraphrase of the famous sentence of Napoléon I, speaking to his soldiers before the battle of the Pyramids (1798). Du haut de ces pyramides quarante siècles vous contemplent. From thèse pyramids forty centuries look down upon you.

101.— 6. Vévêque d'Avranches. Pierre Daniel Huet, a famous scholar, was bom at Caen, in 1630, died at Paris 1721, was made Blshop of

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Ayraiiches in 1678. His scientific tastes did not agrée with the duties of a Bfshop ; he Bpent his tîme in his stady, and visitors were not reoeived nnder the pretext that he was studying. Henoe the origin of the phrase.

108. — ^15. Qui prirent sur 8on humeur. Prendre sur^ hère : avoir une influence sur,

20. A quoi bon nous mettre martel en tête f Idiom : What is the use of tormenting ourselves.

Martel (or marteau) , lit. : hammer ; used figuratively for care, anxiety.

104«— 7. Il pleuvait à verse. Itwas pouring.