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12, en Provence: a Southern province of ancient France. Its coast along the Mediterranean Sea is known as the Riviera, and forms an uninterrupted line of cosmopolitan winter resorts.

13, C’est un homme peu banal que le caporal Saigne: an emphatic form for Le caporal Saigne est un homme peu banal (uncommon).

20. en Indo-Chine . . . Maroc: French Indo-China (Asia) has a population of 16,990,229 inhabitants and comprises the colonies of Cambodia, Laos, Cochin China, Annam, and Tongking. Madagascar is a large island (population 3,512,690) in the lndian Océan and a French colony since 1896. Morocco (le Maroc) is a country in North Africa, under Spanish and French protectorates (population in the French zone: 5,400,000).

14, 14. Y aurait-il: The conditional tense is often used in French to express possibility. Translate, Do you think that there is.