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46 11 De guerre lasse: for de guerre las 'tired of struggling. Final s was pronounced in Old French, after it was no longer pronounced in most words it still continued to be sounded in las in the expression de guerre las because of the presence of the feminine guerre whence the erroneous spelling lasse. 46 12 dessus: adverb, cf. note to 1 6.

Alphonse Daudet - Tartarin de Tarascon