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Page 135. 1. voir les choBOB en beau: to look on the bright side of things. — 2. Hippocrate : Hippocrates, the father of medicine, a distinguished Greek physician, bom in Cos in 400 b.c.— 3. cela vandra: that will be.
Page 136. 1. La proclamation de Brunswick : Made July 26, 1702. See page 16, note 2. — 2. je faiealB recelé dee jeunes fillee :
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 dam one hole. — 2. beancoup de temps de reste : much si^are time.
Page 140. 1. sa lenmie 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
wife must have sewed on a button to fasten 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 Toreille: 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 nés légèrement crochu recourbé: his
somewhat hooked, aquiline nose. — 2. Rosbach : A village in Prussian Saxony, where Frederick the Great won a victory over the French under Soubise, November 6, 1767, in the early part of the Seven Tears* War.
Page 143. 1. mettait au jour: was disclosing. ^2. francs: A fianc is worth about 20 cents. ^ 3. des places de juges : judgeships.
Page 145. 1. Zeitblatt : Name of the newspaper, " The Times." — 2. sans hjrpothèque : without security, unsecured. — 8. il se moquait de la nouvelle ère prétendue républicaine : it derided the new Republican 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, Brumake, Frimaire ; of the second, Nivôse, Pluviôse, Ventôse ; of the tWrd, Germinal, Floréal, Prairial ; of the fourth. Messidor, Thermidor, Fructidor. Each month was divided into three decades, and the days of each decade were called primidi, duodi, tridi, etc., up to décadi, the
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tenth day and day of rest. To the 360 days thus accounted for were added complementary days, five in ordinary years and six in leap years. These 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, 1806, when the Gregorian calendar was restored by Napoleon.
Page 146. 1. la guerre de Vendee : The people of La Vendée, a province in Western France on the Bay of Biscay, took sides with the royalists 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. Toccnpation 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 Napoleon, who here first exhibited proofs of his great military genius. — 4. Tinvasion de T Alsace: General Wurmser invaded Alsace in the autumn of 1793. — 5. la bataille de Kaiserslautem : See pages 124, 126.— 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 forsaken the Lord thy Grod. . . . For of old time I have broken thy yoke and burst thy bands ; and thou saidst, I will not transgress.*' — Jeremiah II. 19, 20.
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Page 148. 1. se trimbaler : travel about Page 149. 1. les gens de bien : good people.
Page 150. 1. ne trouvent plus à gagner leur vi» : can no
longer earn their living.
Page 151. 1. de bonne foi : sincere.
Page 152. 1. catéchisme républicain : The book entitled eatêchisme républicain philosophique et moral was not published till 1796. —2. traits: thoughts. — 3. sentences: sentiments, maxims.
