Tenir la campagne. — To hold out against the enemy

9. J'entends frapper à la porte. — I hear some one knock, or, I hear a knock, at the door. William Young, in his translation of Béranger, thus renders this and the preceding line : One night — as might be now — I heard a knock ...

10. Bon Dieu ! — Dieu ! mon Dieu ! bon Dieu ! and other similar exclamations, are constantly recurring in French conversation. They hâve by no means the force they would seem to hâve if literally translated into English. Heavens ! Goodness ! Good gracious ! Oh dear ! Dear me ! or any Buch exclamation, may be used to render them.

11. S'asseoit. — Présent of s'asseoir, p. 192, §66. This was the old spelling of the verb; at présent it is more common to use the form s'assied.

12. Je cours de tous ses malheurs sous Paris, venger la France. — Sous Paris is, literally, under (the wails of) Paris ; that is, before Paris. Young's version reads : —

'Neath Paris' walls to strike for France One last avenging blow.