La belle avance pour nous, much good it did us

3. s'en prendrait à, wouid attack. Contrast, s'y prendre = to set about a thingy and s'en prendre à = to blâme, to attack.

Page 141. — I. bourse, Exchange.

Page 142. — i . Quartier Latin, the Students' Quarter in Paris, between the Panthéon and the left bank of the Seine. 2. à vif, to the Itfe.

Page 143. — i. marchand de vins, wineshop-keeper, saloon-keeper.

Page 144. — i . écumeurs de terre, land pirates. 2. sergents de ville, the name of the city policemen iinder the Empire ; now gardiens de la paix.

Page 145. — i. la délégation de Bordeaux. See Alphabetical lyist of Persons and Places under " Tours."

Page 146. — i. aurait duré, the conditional, because the statement is doubtful, implying : if the report was true.

Page 147. — i. tenir, hold out. — Revenir sur, to change oné* s opinion about.