Assouvi. — Given vent to

16. Ils se livrent entre eux de très-vifs combats. — They engage in very eharp combats together.

17. Et qu'ils la trouvent fanée. — And find it faded. See Grammar, p. 334, § 13.

18. Ils le font entendre . . . tous prennent V essor. — They utter it in the woods from dawn until, at the first rays of the sun, they ail take flight.

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1. Le bourgeois gentilhomme. — An infatuated plebeian, rich but uneducated, who wishes to ape the manners of the aristocracy. A bourgeois is a man of the middle class, neither of a noble family nor y et the servant or serf of others. He is distinguished from the peasant by being the citizen of some large town and endowed with certain privilèges ; and from the soldier or clergy, by being engaged in trade, manufactures, or practical arts and sciences. La bourgeoisie corresponds to the Enghsh citizen class. Bourgeois is a title of respect, when used by a beggar, peasant, laborer, servant, apprentice, workman, clerk, or salesman. But uttered by the learned or aristocratie, it is quite the reverse ; thus, c'est un bourgeois may mean he is a common man, without manners, taste, or éducation. The same distinctions apply to this word when used as an adjective : c'est bourgeois, that is vulgar, in bad taste ; un air bourgeois, an undignified, commonplace air; des discours bourgeois, conversation which lacks learning, élégance, or deep thought. Une occupation bourgeoise, for a soldier or laborer, is an easy, inactive life. Une maison bourgeoise is a genteel house, •with nothing grand, ancient, or lordly about it.

2. Tout ce que je pourrai . . . et j'enrage que. — Every thing I can, for I hâve the greatest possible désire to be learned, and I am furious to think that, or I am niuch vexed that.