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This error is common in the speech of the uneducated classes. n'me: the e of ne is omitted as in conversational French. Se is used as a reciprocal pronoun several times in this paragraph. 7 4 depuis ... chantent 'in all the time that they have been singing them to one another. Chantent is present tense with depuis. 7 5 en changer: cf. note to 1 3. 7 6 n'y touche: cf. note to 2 29.
89 4 des bruits de verres: 'clinking of glasses. 89 6 qui chantait: 'singing'; cf. note to 55 7. 89 13 tambourins: 'drums. The Provençal and Algerian tambourin is a drum higher than it is wide. Tambour 90 1 = tambourin. Cf. note to 53 15. 89 29 Digo-li ... moun bon! = dis-lui qu'il vienne, mon bon; 'just tell him to come on, old fellow'; a Provençal challenge.
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.
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