Armorique, Armorica, the old name of Bretagne

6. la Basse-Normandie, Lower Normandy, an old French province northwest of Bretagne, celebrated for its apples and cider.

Page 41. — I. une langue inconnue, i. e., the native Breton language, one of the group of Celtic languages.

Page 42. — i. mis pied à terre, alighted (from the diligence). 2. affleurant le sol, cropping out of the ground.

Page 43. — i. ce que . . . avait de légitime, how legitimate was.

Page 44. — ■■ i. sibyllins, sibylline, pertaining to the sibyls, who were Roman women supposed to be endowed with the spirit of prophecy.

2. le premier empire, i. e., the first French Empire, with Napoléon Bonaparte as Emperor (1804-14).