LA PIPE DE JEAN BART

Page 73. — 1. Jean Bart or Baert, born 1651, died 1702 in Dunkirk. He was Louis XIV.'s most celebrated naval commander. — 2. pays, noun in apposition without article. — 3. y, on it. — 4. porte à porte, door to door, i.e., in the next room. — 5. faisait parvenir; comp. ferai fouetter, I., 5, note 19. — 6. les demandes ... de J. B., John Bart' 's request for a hearing. — 7. mit de côté, laid aside. — 8. doublé, lined. — 9. de faction, on duty. — 10. alors . . . attendre, then do not make me wait here ; lit., let one not make, etc. — 11. je vous en défie, / dare you to do it. — 12. de mettre is the logical subject of était; que is redundant. — 13. par se faire faire, by causing to be made to himself. — 14. force = beaucoup de. — 15. In 1692, and again in 1698. — 16. Tourville, another celebrated admiral in the service of Louis XIV. — 17. à tue-tête, at the top of his voice ; lit., (so as) to split one'' s head. — 18. comme vous l'étiez, as you were (it). For le, comp. I., 3, note 40.