devant eux, * straight before them

31. le Serein, or Serain, a tributary of the Yonne flowing northwest, a few miles from Tonnerre.

53. la Cure, another tributary of the Yonne, west of the Serein.

2, Vermanton, a small town on the Cure, south-east of Auxerre.

7. lui voulait, *wanted with hen* The dative is of the remoter object. Eve § 144.