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He was ten paces from him, and made the saint's slippers tremble. 8. Everything was there in front of him. 9. Tartarin saw the big negroes running at him. 10. He had just slain the poor tame lion. De quoi Tartarin s'est-il acquis la certitude en se réveillant? 2. Dans quel état se voyait-il? 3. De quoi doutait-il? 4. Qu'est devenu le prince? 5. Dans quelle position Tartarin était-il assis? 6.
66 12 babouches: Turkish slippers, made of colored leather, without heels défroque: 'cast offs', properly, the possessions which a monk leaves behind at his death, then, by extension, what is abandoned disdainfully. 67 2 gros bleu: = bleu foncé, 'dark blue. In French the word may also mean the burn thus produced on the skin.
A Frenchman is not offended as we are by the flippancy of this reference to one of the supreme moments of Christ's life. Cf. De Vigny's "Le Mont des Oliviers." 85 13 d'en face: 'in front of him'; cf. 90 20. 85 17 jusqu'aux pantoufles: made 'even the slippers' shake; of 81 25. 85 19 Seul: while all trembled, Tartarin 'alone' did not.
L'amiral s'y rendit gaiement in gown and slippers en robe de chambre et en pantoufles.
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