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36 18 Imbécile, va!: 'what a fool you are! Va! allez! and allons! For allons! cf. 56 1 Je te l'avais bien dit 'I told you so. 36 19 Eh bien ... l'Afrique!: 'well now, here's your Africa! On té see note to 13 7. La anticipates l'Afrique, cf. 32 5. 36 27 la Mecque: 'Mecca, in Arabia, the birthplace of Mohammed; the Holy City to which every good Mohammedan goes in pilgrimage at least once.
Le curé Faguy fut le premier qui eut l'honneur de recevoir M. le notaire Lormier; le maire vint en deuxième lieu, et, the last, but not the least, M. de LaRue ferma, pour ce jour, la liste des heureux mortels de Sainte-R....
4 9-10 le moindre: 'the least' le plus petit: 'the smallest'. 4 14 Rhône 'Rhone, the great river of southeastern France, in the heart of Provence diablement: 'deucedly' Diable and Dieu are used very freely in French. 4 16 du poil et de la plume 'of fur and feathers' est très mal note 'has a black mark against its name', noter= 'to note, 'to mark, 'to make a note of'.
It is still therefore in His Majesty's power to instruct his Governors to leave that tract of ground on the frontiers unconceded, at least for some years, when a better judgment may be made than at present of the turn which affairs may take, on this continent.»
The picture I was doing for the Salon is not yet finished. You may well understand that I can have no pleasure in sending something that is not entirely good, at least that is as good as I may do. I am flattered by the admiration of B.... you find her intelligent; she is so, but when you know her better you will see that the first days she looks more that she is in reality.
That there was little congeniality between husband and wife cannot be doubted, yet Mme. de La Fayette's own letters go to prove that for a time at least she was not unhappy. In a letter to Ménage, written from Auvergne soon after her marriage, she says: "La solitude que je trouve ici m'est plutôt agréable qu'ennuyeuse.
After the breaking-up of the Hôtel de Rambouillet, there were formed various smaller coteries, among which that of Mme. de La Fayette was by no means the least important. From her little circle of précieuses, Mme. de La Fayette was drawn to the Court of Louis XIV. chiefly through the friendship of "Madame," the Princess Henrietta of England.
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