mon cerveau : note

un rhume de cerveau, ' a cold in the head. ' avoir le cervea^i creux, ' to be crack-brained.' se creuser la cervelle, ' to puzzle one's brains. ' se brûler la cervelle, ' to blow out one's brains. '

30. je pris le sage parti de . ., ' I w-isely resolved to . .'

Note—

prendre le parti de qn. , ' to side with some one. '

lirer parti de, ' to turn to account," ' make the most of '

de parti pris, ' deliberately. '