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80 10 Va te promener! cf. note to 48 11. 80 13 six cent mille dents: each Arab had 150 teeth! Which goes to show that Daudet himself was born not far from Tarascon. But it is to be remembered that six cent mille is sometimes used merely to indicate a very large number, like English "thousands of." 80 14 dut: cf. note to 67 7.
77 23 bureau arabe: 'Arab office, the French bureau for the Administration of affairs concerning the natives. au bon frais: strengthened form of au frais 'in the fresh air. 77 25 crut
80 19 devant: devant for avant, auparavant, is obsolete except in certain locutions such as comme devant. 80 25 douar: 'douar, an Arab village, composed of tents arranged with more or less regularity. plaine du Cheliff: the broad part of the Sheliff basin is in the half desert plateau between the Great Atlas and the Little Atlas.
The Arab conquest about 700 A.D. made Arabic the dominant language of all North Africa to this day an important fact to remember and introduced the Arabs as a permanent population along the north edge of the Sahara.
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