mer des Indes, Indian Ocean

38. 7. bien after ou may be omitted in translating or translated else; compare or else in English. This story as related by Tennyson is said to be substantially true. It is very popular in France and there are at least eight different translations of the story into French.

84. 20. The 14th of July is celebrated in France as the anniversary of the taking of the Bastille, July 14, 1789.

85. 28. La Hongue (or Hague) is a cape on the northwest coast of. France. The French fleet under Touryille (i 642-1 701) and d'Sstrées was defeated here, May 20, 1692, by the English fleet under Lord Russell.

85. 20. Patron, here means the man after whom the ship is named.

86» II. Dnnkerque is a French port on the North Sea and has about 40,000 inhabitants.