qu'elle ne ressemble : note the ne without pas, and

bear in mind that the verb is in the subjunctive. 21. Livourne (Italian, Livorno), ' Leghorn,' an important seaport of Northern Italy, with extensive dockyards in which ironclads are constructed. dans, for en, or rather après. Note that, in speaking of time, dans should be used to express when a thing is donc, en to dénote the time taken in doing it.

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16. 22. une ville nouvelle : distinguish between une nouvelle

robe, 'another dress,' 'a différent one,' and une robe nouvelle, ' a new-fashioned dress. '

23. du gr^nle : for the gender cf. un incendie, un parapluie, le foie (' liver ').

des ducs de Toscane : the title of Grand Duke of Tuscany was first granted to Cosmo I. by Pope Plus I. in 1569. After being long retained by the Medici family, it passed in 1737 to Francis Stephen, Duke of Lorraine. Tuscany was annexed to Sardinia by a popular vote in 1859, and two years later became part of the kingdom of Italy.