vivant sur leiu's terres, Hving upon thelr lands. Note

that the présent participle does not change when used as

a participle.

4. ses métairies, hisfarms Ui on shares, 6. la fsiçon des vignes, the dressing of the vines, 18. et que nous ne nous sommes jamais querellés

de notre vie, and becavse we hâve never quarrelled in our

life. Note that qv£ is used to repeat parce que as oflen ;

and that de is used for ' in,' as jamais de ma vie,

neoer in my itfe.

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14« — 20. me fait Teffet d'avoir, gives me the impression of one having.

29. qui avait beaucoup voyagré, beaucoup vu, wko had iravelled and seen miich, !Note the place of beaucoup before the participle.

31. contrastait d'une manière frappante, eonlrasted in a strUcing mamner. Note this fréquent use of de for ' in/ as de cette façon, in that way^ etc., and also (13-20), rivalisaient . . . d'importance, rivalled in importance, 14. — 34. Troyon, Constant Troyon was a distînguished landscape and animal painter. He died in Paris in 1865.

35. Rosa Bonbeur, a highly dîstinguished painter of animais, was bom at Bordeaax in 1822. The Empress Eugénie placed upon her neck, with her own hands, the cross of the Légion of Honor.

15- — 6. qui doivent rompre avec le passé, who hâve to break wUh their pasL Note that the forms of devoir j as hère, may frequentlj be well rendered in English by * hâve to.'