On vous en a donné à garder. En donner à

garder à qadqu*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 Fyramids (1798). Du haut de ces pyramides quarante siècles vous contemplent, From thèse pyramids f orty centuries look down upon you.

101. — 6. Vévêque d^Avranches, Pierre Daniel Huet, a famous scholar, was bom at Gaen, in 1680, died at Paris 1721, was made Bishop of

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Avranches in 1678. His scientific tastes did not agrée with the duties of a Bishop ; he spent his time in his study, and visitors were not reoeived under the pretext that he was studying. Henoe the origin of the phrase.

103. — 15. Qui prirent sur son humeur. Prendre sur, hère : avoir une influ,ence 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.