Lannion: a town a few miles west of Tréguier

9. — 21. eût-elle. After peut-être this inversion of subject and predicate is usual.

10. — 11. à elle seule: by herself alone, i.e., by her own unaided efforts.

10. — 22. la révolution de 1830. This révolution ended the restoration (see note 1815, p. 6, line 3), and inaugurated a constitutional monarchy under Louis-Philippe of the Orléans family.

11, — 1. légitimistes: partisans of the Bourbon dynasty, which had been driven out in 1830. The throne and the altar were closely aUied in the minds of the legitimists.

11, — 10. instruction: éducation, attainments,

13, — 22. le voyage de Paris: a trip to Paris.

13, — 4. nous autres Bretons: we Bretons, Autres is usually without value in the expressions nous autres, vous autres,

13. — 20. Conmient chanter, etc.: "How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?" — Psalm cxxxvii. 4.