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Son . . . tourmenté : his style was more labored

Page 32. — 1 . Cela . . . fourmille : thèse masses of people are sometintes crowding and swarming.

a. Coron: a miner* s house, "maison construite par une compagnie houillière pour l'habitation des mineurs."

3. Des galibots, des haveurs, des raccommodeurs. Names of the différent classes of workers in a coal mine.

Page 33. — 1. La Marseillaise. Name of the national French hymn. The music and the words were composed by Rouget de Lisle, an omcer of

the French army. Its first name was Chant de V Armée du Rhin, but it was changed to la Marseillaise, be cause it was sung for the first time by a régiment of soldiers from Marseille.

2. Et . . . supérieure : breaking with foaming eddieJTagainst a superior force.

Page 34. — i . Le ... Mouret. Le Paradou, name of an immense garden, overgrown with wild flowers of every description, in La Faute dt V Abbé Mouret; V assommoir du père Colombe, in U Assommoir ; le magasin d'Octave Mouret, m Au Bonheur des Dames.

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