Les deux Tartarin s

I. de diable au vert : for getting far away, The château of Vauvert in the southem suburbs of médiéval Paris was given up by Louis IX. to the monks of a neighboring cloister because it was supposed to be haunted by a démon. As this establishment was far from the center of

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the city, aller au diable de Vauvert came inta use as a popular expression for "going a long way off "; diable de Vauvert was afterwards corrupted into diable au vert.

2. Marseille. Only sixty-two miles away on the shore of the Mediterranean.

3. ce diable de pont : ** that cussed bridge^"* a Yankee would say.