Je monte en grade, ' I advance a ;tep

66. J'ai été an marqnif de La Bsaarie, ' I wus under . . . Lem arqni$ de La Btuarie.' One of the rovalist lea krs, under whom, as we have aeen, le Chevalier de Tinténiac, one of tlie heroea of thig épisode, took service.

(7. toesin. This word, in the seventi^eiith centary, was spelt torqttetin, notably by Ménage, and is compoanded of two worda— -tojue (aot of stnking) and rin (a bell) 8in is from Lat. tigaum, aud bas tlie meaaing of a bell in inany MeTovia<{ian texte. The word is foun I in a proverb ourrent as late as the seventeenth oentury : Le hruit ett n grand qu'on n'oirait paê (t'e. n'entendrait pas) les sins tonner. Bell-fouiidera ulso used to be called saintierê.

S8. de La Boobq'aqnelein. Thebrarestof the Royalist gênerais, whom he commanded in ùi Vendée, 1793-94. On a^suming the oominaiid, he is said to liave barangued his soldiers thas : " Si je recule, tuez-moi; »if avance, $uivez-moi; H je meurt, vengez-moi " Si-e Mémoire» de Madame de la Hochejaquelein, who vras an eye-witness of the stirring scènes.

69. patanda, (t'.e. 'dull and stupid'). Froperly, it is said of a yoang dog with thiok paws, and by extension, of a clumsy man or woman. Aceording to Sonvestre, it was a corraption of the word patriote, which, faeing qnite new and unintelUgible to the Chouans, wad mispronounœd by them, and applied to the Bepublicans.