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34 12 fort Saint-Jean, fort Saint-Nicolas: the two forts which guard the entrance to the harbor of Marseilles. Accoules, Saint-Victor: old churches in Marseilles. 35 12 golfe du Lion: 'Gulf of the Lion, off southern France.
38 31 tron de ler: more properly tron de l'er, a Provençal oath = tonnerre de l'air, 'thunder of the air! A Provençal newspaper with the name Lou Tron de l'Er appeared in Marseilles in 1877-1878. 38 32 longtemps: cf. note to 40 17. en: anticipates des pirates; cf. note to 32 5. 39 4 un brave garçon: cf. note to 3 12. 39 8 tire-vieille: 'man-rope, one of the side ropes on the gangway of a ship.
Qu'importe la teinte de la peau? Son père était venu ici de Marseilles peut-être ou de Bordeaux, mes ancêtres
90 2 marseillais: 'dialect of Marseilles. Not only did she know French, but even Tartarin's own dialect. The Provençal language comprises many dialects; that of Tarascon does not differ greatly from that of Marseilles. 90 3 Quand je vous disais: 'what did I tell you about ...? 90 9 s'est ... sac: 'let himself be caught red-handed'; cf. note to 7 25.
1322 se trouvait-il 'did it happen' Se trouver = 'to find oneself, itself, 'to happen, 'to be'. 1326 Marseille: 'Marseilles, the greatest seaport in France and the metropolis of the south, only sixty miles from Tarascon. 1328 Beaucaire: a city on the Rhone, opposite Tarascon, to which it is joined by a long suspension bridge, cf. note to 18 11. 13 30 diable de pont: cf. note to 1 12.
37 9 Machine, stop! Stop in machine, stop! is an imperative taken directly from the English. 37 10 plus rien: cf. notes to 13 1 and 4 23 Rien que: cf. 1 17. 37 19 Alger la blanche: 'Algiers, capital of Algeria, about 500 miles from Marseilles. For the epithet blanche, see next note.
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