CHAPTER XII
Page 131. 1. quatre à quatre : That is, quatre marches par quatre marches, four steps at a time; in hot haste. — 2. joliment: pretty well.
Page 133. 1. écartant mes cheveux: stroking back my hair. De mon front is added on page 167, line 23. — 2. intérieure: secret. — 3. On a beau dire, ce sont les femmes qui font l'intérieur d'une maison : say what you wjll, it is the women that make the home.
Page 135. 1. voir les choses en beau: to look on the bright side of things. — 2. Hippocrate : Hippocrates/the father of medicine, a distinguished Greek physician, born in Cos in 460 b.c. — 3. cela vaudra : that will be.
Page 136. 1. La proclamation de Brunswick : Made July 26, 1792. See page 16, note 2. — 2. je faisais l'école des jeunes filles :
I had the girls' department.
Page 138. 1. Bourgogne : Burgundy, one of the most important of the former provinces of France and famous for its wine.
Page 139. 1. à faire une reprise: to darn one hole. — 2. beaucoup de temps de reste : much spare time.
Page 140. 1. sa femme avait dû lui mettre un bouton pour attacher la seconde bretelle de sa culotte, car, au lieu de pencher sur la hanche, elle était relevée également des deux côtés : his
wif e must hâve sewed on a button to f asten his other suspender to ; for, instead of dropping down on one side, his breeches were pulled up evenly on both.— 2. la main retournée contre l'oreille: his hand raised in salute. Compare levant la main à son oreille, page 141, 1. 8.
Page 141. 1. pleine d'à- propos et de bon sens : appropriate and sensible.
Page 142. 1. son nez légèrement crochu recourbé: his
crooked, slightly aquiline nose. — 2. Rosbach : A village in Prussian Saxony, where Frederick the Great won a victory over the French under Soubise, November 6, 1757, in the early part of the Seven Years' War.
Page 143. 1. mettait au jour: was disclosing. — 2. francs: A franc is worth about 20 cents. — 3. des places de juges : judgeships.
Page 145. 1. Zeitblatt : Name of the newspaper, " The Times." — 2. sans hypothèque : without security, unsecured. — 3. il se moquait de la nouvelle ère prétendue républicaine: it derided the new Kepublican era, as it was called. — 4. vendémiaire, etc. : The Convention decreed, November 24, 1793, that the new French era should commence from the foundation of the Republic, September 22, 1792. The' year was divided into twelve months of thirty days each. The months of the first quarter were called Vendémiaire, Brumaire, Frimaire ; of the second, Nivôse, Pluviôse, Ventôse ; of the third, Germinal, Floréal, Prairial ; of the fourth, Messidor, Thermidor, Fructidor. Each month was divided into three décades, and the days of each décade were called primidi, duodi, tridi, etc., up to décadi, the
tenth day and day of rest. To the 360 days thus accounted for were added complementary' days, five in ordinaiy years and six in leap years. Thèse days were celebrated as festivals and obtained the name of Sansculottides. This Republican calendar was first used November 26, 1793, and was discontinued December 31, 1805, when the Gregorian calendar was restored by Napoléon.
Page 146. 1. la guerre de Vendée : The people of La Vendée, a province in Western France on the Bay of Biscay, took sides with the royaliste against the National Assembly. At first they made head against the Republican forces, but were at last terribly punished. The Vendeans suffered their great defeat at Savenay, December 23, 1793. — 2. la prise de Lyons : Taken by the Republicans, October 9, 1793. — 3. l'occupation de Toulon: The citizens of Toulon revolted against the Republic and called in the aid of the English and Spanish fleets. The fleets were driven out of the harbor and the city taken, December 19, 1793, by the skill of Napoléon, who hère first ezhibited proofs of his great military genius. — 4. l'invasion de l'Alsace: General Wurmser invaded Alsace in the autumn of 1793. — 5. la bataille de Kaiserslautern : See pages 124, 125. — 6. ces paroles du prophète Jérémie : " Thine own wickedness shall correct thee and thy backslidings shall reprove thee : know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast f orsaken the Lord thy God. . . . For of old time I hâve broken thy yoke and burst thy bands ; and thou saidst, I will not transgress." — Jeremiah II. 19, 20. '
