La belle avance pour nous, much good it did us

3. s'en prendrait à, would attack, Contrast, sy prendre a to set tfàout 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 148. — 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 doubtful, implying : if the report was true.

Page 147, — i. tenir, hold out. — Revenir sur, to change oneU opinion about,