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Despite this belief and despite the game laws, in southern France generally, especially in the Camargue, large numbers of swallows are killed and eaten. 5 7 en pleine campagne: 'into the open country', cf. 2 2, 41 13. 5 11 boeuf en daube 'stewed beef', properly, stewed with vegetables and then baked slowly Dauber = braiser saucissot: italicized because a dialectal form, = saucisson 'sausage'.
43 20 ne devaient pas être: 'ought not to be, 'surely were not, 'could not be', see note to 2 10. 43 29 crut devoir: 'thought he had better'; see note to 2 10. 43 31 Et autrement: cf. note to 21 10. 44 1 Vous avez tué? ... voyez plutôt: 'killed any? Oh, yes some just take a look for yourself. With pas mal 'not badly' cf. j'ai tué pas mal de bécasses 'I killed quite a number of woodcocks.
It was the war that killed the old Daudet and brought into existence the new. Before the war, Daudet himself confesses it, he had lived free from care, singing and trifling, heedless of the vexing problems of society and the world, his heart aglow with the fire of the sun of his native Provence.
His love for Cécile, granddaughter of a gentle country doctor, is rapidly making a man of him, when his mother enters again into his life and the poor boy dies miserably in a hospital, killed by despair rather than by disease. This is perhaps the most powerful of Daudet's novels; it is certainly the most harrowing.
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