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The whole was then covered in, a little above the level of the ground, with another bed of flat stones whose external surface extending to the brink of the two feet wall on each side of the grave, covers a space of twelve feet long and nine feet wide. A guard has been placed over the grave. The spot chosen is not devoid of a certain interest.

M. (François) Guizot - Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire de mon temps (Tome 5)

10 4 pampas: 'pampas, vast plains in Argentina, extending from the Atlantic to the Andes. Transl. 'to go a-cap-hunting. 10 10 en vain s'entourait-il: cf. note to 5 32. 10 13 lectures romanesques: 'romantic readings. The French for Engl. 'lecture' is conférence, causerie.

Alphonse Daudet - Tartarin de Tarascon