en trompette : curled up
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Bepublio. He defeated the Anstrians at Weissembuig in 1798 and compelled them to withdraw from Akace. He died in 1797 at the age of twenty-nine.
FaobSI. l.toroidePniMe: Frederick William 11. was king of Prassia from 1786 to 1797.— 2. à ■ooxlre tont baa: to chuckle. — 3. lea yeux pliaatf a : with a sly look in his half-closed eyes. This expression is about equivalent to fermant h demi lea yettx avec finesse used on page 19. Compare also en plissant ses petits yeux, p. 86, and dont les yeux se plissèrent^ p. 141. — 4. arrive: come here. — 6. comme des bienheoreiiz : happy as larks. —6. rouler: to upset — 7. cramponnéea aux patina: grasping the ronners. Patin usually means a skate. — 8. filant par-âeaaiia lea rampea : spinning down the slopes.
Page 83. 1. ta Jouaia à la drogne, ta remoaia lea dëa poor la bomie chance, ta battaia la diane : you used to play split-stick, shake dice for good luck, and beat the reyeille. La drogue \b a game of cards played by soldiers. The loser has to wear upon his nose a split stick called drogue . — 2. à la grande halte : «t the long (noon-day) halt.
Fagb 84. 1. Klopatock : A Qerman poet bom in 1724. He has been called the Father of German Poetry. He died in 1803.
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Paob 86. 1. lignes: A line is the twelfth part of an inch.— 2. larges pattes: broad clasps.
Page 87. 1. anr sea onissea maigrea : on his narrow lap. — 2. Molae, Hérodote, Thaoydide, Tite-Live: Moses, Herodotus, Thucydides, Livy.
Page 88. 1. voua sanrea : you must know. — 2. c'est poor faire entendre: that means.
Page 89. 1. Malheur au paateur du néant : woe to the shepherd of little worth. — 2. Mayence : A city on the Rhine, the German Mainz. It was taken by the French under General Custine in 1792, and retaken by the Prussians the following year. — 3. Cuatine : A French general bom in Metz in 1740. He served as colonel at Torktown, Va., in 1781. He conducted a brilliant campaign on the Bhine in 1792. He was •'^tmed August 28, 1793.
Page 91. 1. consommer le péché : to destroy sin. — 2. Forgeons les épées en hosrauz et les hallebardes en serpes : ** They shall beat their swords into plough-shares, and their spears into proninghooks," Isaiah 11. 4. — 3. ponr bien laisser prendre le tabac : to let the tobacco catch well. — 4. ça vent dire leurs ecus, leors florins et leur monnaie de tonte espèce : that means their crowns, their florins, and their coins of eyery kind.
Paob 92. 1. seraient entrés . . . que Je n^aurais pas été : might have entered, and I should not have been. — 2. tricot : ** I am wearing a winter overcoat and other warm clothing that I brought in case of a change of temi)erature. The captain wears his tricot, which is a knitted over-skirt fitting like a coat of mail.'* — Philip Gilbert Hamerton in ** The Saône," p. 106. — 8. il mettait de vieux chaussons : he wore some old socks. — 4. au Bœuf-Rouge et au Cruchon d*Or : Names of inns. The Red Ox and The Golden Jug.
Page 93. 1. Du moment qu'une bataille s'est livrée avant-hier, il faut que nous ayons eu le dessous : if a battle was fought day before yesterday, it must needs be that we were worsted.
Pagb 94. 1. le tour des yetuc et le menton dessinés en arêtes :
the chin and the bones about the eyes sharply prominent ; or, more freely, deep-sunk eyes and sharp chin. — 2. ce Richter ne mérite pas pour deux liards de confiance : this Richter doesn't deserve a cent's worth of confidence. The Hard was a small copper coin worth a quarter of a sou or half a cent.
Page 95. 1. regret: reluctance. — 2. Brunswick: The Duke of Brunswick, a nephew of Frederick the Great, was bom' in 1736. In 1792, he was made commander-in-chief of the allied armies of Austria and Prussia, which invaded France and were defeated by Dumouriez. — 3. le bois de lit : head- board ; usually bed-stead.
Page 96. 1. Champagne : A part of France which lies to the west of Lorraine and is comprised in the modem departments of Marne, Aube, Ardennes, Haute Mame, and Yonne. — 2. lancer des proclamations : The Duke of Brunswick announced by proclamation, July 26, 1792, that he had come to France, in the name of the kings, to restore Louis XVI. to his authority. He threatened to treat as rebels those cities which should dare to defend themselves, to shoot all inhabitants caught with arms, and to hand Paris over to the soldiers if the Tuileries were insulted. — 3. nous lui avons fait la conduite : we escorted him. — 4. r Argonne : The Argonne is a rocky and forest-clad plater»'
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in North-eastern France, extending along the borders of Lorraine and Champagne. In the Aigonne Hills are several defiles or narrow passes. The famous defence of the French frontier by Dnmouriez in 1792 is called the Argonne Campaign. — 6. la bataille de Valmy: The heights of Valmy in the department of Mame were the centre of the battle in which the French Bepublicans under Kellerman defeated the Prussians and Austrians under Brunswick, September 20, 1702. Goethe was present at this battle. When the day was over, he said : *' In this place and on this day begins a new epoch in the history of the world." Paob 97. 1. à la grftoe de Diea : trusting to FroTidenoe.
