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Page 98. — x. ne se fit pas prier davantage, did not hâve to be asked a second time,

a. des Lescure et des Rochejacquelin, two brave Vendean gen^ rais who distinguished themselves in an uprising of the peasants in the province of Vendée, in the time of the French Révolution. Certain women played a conspicuous part in this insurrection.

3. général Hocha (d 1797), commander-in-chlef of thè armies of the French Republic and the Pacificateur de la Vendée,

Pagre 94. — x. la méthode anglaise, etc. ; observe the irony of this speech.

Pajpe 96« — z. Tenez-yous vous promener, will you cçme and take a boat^def

Page 97* — x. ae mit à battre ... des rames, hegan toply kis

oars.

a. TOÏÏk^ that's ail.

Pagre 99. — i. la yieiUe forêt de Brocélyande, near Rennes in Bretagne. It was "in the wild woods of Broceliande" that the "wily Vivien*' leamed of the enchanter Merlin the fatal "chann of woven paces and of waving hands'*; cf. Tennyson's Idylls of ihi King,