La belle avance pour nous, much good it did us

3. s'en prendrait à, would attack. Contrast, s"*)/ prendre = to set about a thing, 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 life.

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 under the Empire ; now gardiens de la paix.

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

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

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