corsaire autorisé, privateer
4. les colonies, L &, the French colonies in the West Indies.
Page 45. — z. Louis Xni, King of France 1610-43, whose mother, a Medici, encouraged Italian culture in France.
Page 46. — z. se riant au nez, laughing in each other's/ace. 2. il a fallu en prendre son parti, Ihad to make the bestofit^ or I had to iucept the situation.
Page 48. — z. au, with the, 2. j'y tiens, linsist on it.
Page 49. — z. si peu de cas que je fasse moi-même, however little value I may personally set.
Page 50. — z. n'en pas moins, is none the less,
a. ce que c'est que des sabots, what wooden shoes are.
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3. Kléber, a renowned French gênerai, usually represented in his pictures as having a very thick head of hair.
Page 51* — z. tSUcé^ vacant.
Page 52. — z. ne m'était pas échappée que, had hardly escaped me when, a. de toute sa taille, to hisfull height, 3. fea \A\iOltfJire/rom the larboard (the port guns).
Page 58* — i. de Pesprit d'à-piop0S| on the présence of mind, a. Antigono, the daughter of Œdipus and the heroine of Sophodes' tragedy of Antigone. She served as guide to her blind father until his death and has remained the type of filial dévotion.
Page 54* — i. sur le mode lyrique, in lyric style.
Page 56* — i. le cycle d'Arthur, the Arthurian or Breton cyde of Romance of chivalry, compiled by Geoffrey of Monmouth (1140) to celebrate the deeds and adventures of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. The same writer wrote also a Latin translation of the prophéties of the cdebrated enchanter Merlin. Later Chrestien de Troyes gave a more artistic form and setting to thèse f ascinating stories, such as Le Chevalier au Lion^ Cligès^ etc. ; cf. in English Malory's Le Ilforte Darthur and Tennyson's Idylls of the King,
a. César, Julius Casar, the Roman conqueror of Gaul (58-51
3. druides, bardes, oyates, the three ruling dasses among the Celts; the druides being the philosophers and men of science; the bardes^ the poets and historians; and the ovates, the priests.
4. menhir, dolmen, galgal, cromlech ; Celtic megalithic monuments, with their stones arranged in différent ways, — horizontally, vertically, or in the form of a drde.
Page 57. — z. voudrait, would ratker, a. tant soit peu, rather,
