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87 30 s'était ... inexplicable: 'had conceived an inexplicable fancy for his master. Se prendre d'amitié pour quelqu'un = 'to take a liking; to a person. 87 32 ne ... semelle: 'never more than a foot behind him, lit. 88 2
At the last minute the death sentence was commuted to imprisonment for life and Cornelius was taken directly from the scaffold to the state prison of Loewestein near Dordrecht.
Nemrod doublé de Salomon: 'a Nimrod and a Solomon at the same time. Doubler 'to line'; un manteau doublé de fourrure 'a fur-lined coat. For Nimrod, "a mighty hunter before the Lord," see Genesis x, 8-9; for Solomon as unerring judge, I Kings iii, 28. 6 chapter heading Nan! dialectal form of non! See 8 13-14. 6 13 Ce qui ... de romances: lit. 'what ... of ballads'; transl.
I am working at its preparation and write while the model reposes... it is not the preparation, as we say at Julian's, I am only doing studies for it must not be done in an atelier;... well, I was going to tell the great secret... I am glad to hear Miss Webb does good things, she is nice; mes très sincères amitiés to her and Miss B...
The novel is a souvenir of the author's sojourn in the home of the real Tartarin and of the trip which the two made together , the whole being greatly modified by the play of the novelist's Provençal imagination. To appreciate "Tartarin de Tarascon" is not easy for a foreigner; and by foreigners is meant all those who have not lived in and do not know Provence.
En février 1882, pendant la session de la Législature, une demande fut présentée pour une «Charter of incorporation for the great American and European Short-line Railway Company». Le dessein de cette Compagnie était de mettre
To Daudet the choice of proper names was always a matter for careful consideration. On the Tarasque cf. note to 325. 1 2 il y a ... de cela: 'that was ... ago, lit. 'there are ... from that. 1 3 je m'en souviens: 'I remember it. Se souvenir de quelque chose, hence s'en souvenir (en replacing de + a pronoun); cf. changer de chanson, en changer 7 5, revenir de l
Outside the main current of the plot Daudet sketches one of the little dramas of humble life of which he was so fond: the story of Delobelle, an impoverished actor who lives for his art while his devoted wife and daughter Désirée patiently ply the needle to earn bread. Daudet up to this time had been recognized as the greatest of French short-story writers.
Edinburgh, Printed for T. Cadell, 1793. Cette édition est connue sous le nom de Seconde
1 12: coquin de sort: a characteristic Southern oath, lit. For the construction cf. coquin de lièvre 4 24, diable d'homme 9 3. Engl. "rascal of a man," Latin scelus viri; "the city New York," "the city of New York." 1 17: rien que: 'nothing but'; i.e. il n'y avait rien que.
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