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LE DUC DE LORRAINE, Charles III., called "the Great," was the son of Francis I., Duke of Lorraine, and of Christina of Denmark, niece of the Emperor Charles V. He was born at Nancy, February 15, 1543. After the death of his father in 1546, his mother ruled over the Duchy during the minority of her son.
32 1 1er =premier. par: cf. note to 10 22. Here used for comic effect; transl. 'debouch. la Canebière: the principal Street of Marseilles, of which the inhabitants are very proud. 32 5 s'il en manque ... des Teurs: des Teurs is anticipated by en; cf. 36 19, 38 32, 69 2. 32 10 le Zouave. the corps of French infantry in Algeria called 'zouaves' was organized in 1831.
The progress of the British army in Asia has been marked by a scrupulous reference to justice, an inviolable respect for property, an abstinence from anything which could tend to wound the feelings and prejudices of the people; and the result is this that I saw, not many weeks ago, a distinguished military officer who had just returned from the center of Afghanistan, from a place called Candahar which many of you perhaps never heard of, and told me that he, accompanied by half a dozen attendants, but without any military escort, had ridden on horseback many thousand miles, through a country inhabited by wild and semibarbarous tribes who, but two years ago, were arrayed in fierce hostility against the approach of British arms, but that he had ridden through them all with as much safety as he could have ridden from Tiverton to John Great's house, his name as a British officer being a passport through them all, because the English had respected their rights, and afforded them protection, and treated them with justice.
86 16 la bohème des gens de loi: 'the legal Bohemia. Gypsies were supposed to have come from Bohemia; consequently any persons who lead an irregular life are called Bohemians. Thus, for example, the Latin Quarter of Paris, inhabited largely by artists and students, is called the "Bohemian Quarter." 86 18 sauterelles: cf. note to 24 23. Timbre-poste, masculine, = 'postage stamp.
Henry VIII. desired her as a match for the Prince of Wales, but her mother favored a marriage with the Dauphin, afterwards Francis II. She accordingly set out for France in 1548 and the marriage took place on April 24, 1558. From this time until the death of Henry II., Francis and Mary Stuart were called le Roi Dauphin and la Reine Dauphine respectively.
11 6 Touareg: cf. note to 40 17. des Abruzzes: 'of the Abruzzi, a mountainous district of central Italy, noted for its brigands. 11 9 avait beau les appeler: 'called them in vain'; cf. 28 16, 46 8. Beau is ironical in this expression; cf. Engl. "a fine fellow," "a pretty mess." A very common Provençal exclamation, usually denoting pity or resignation. Transl. 'alas, 'dear me.
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