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In an article which appeared in "Les Annales," July 6, 1913, Charles Le Goffic tells of a visit to the house in Tarascon known as la maison de Tartarin, and reports a conversation he had with Mistral, the great Provençal poet, an intimate friend of Daudet.
To light se prend quelquefois pour to lighten, alléger, et je crois que c'en est ici la signification. Les jours passés n'ont point éclairé, mais allégé ou abrégé le chemin que nous avons
The grave was formed in the following manner: A large pit was sunk, of a sufficient width all round to admit of a wall two feet thick of solid masonry being constructed on each side; thus forming an exact oblong, the hollow space within which was precisely twelve feet deep, near eight long and five wide. A bed of masonry was at the bottom.
69 4 il fallait me voir: cf. note to 24 3. 69 5 vernissées a neuf: 'varnished so that they shone like new.
See "Le Caravansérail" in "Contes du lundi." 71 2 une place de jolie sous-préfecture: 'the square of a pretty little city, 'the square of a pretty city about the size of a subprefecture'; cf. note to 17 14. For the construction cf. note to 1 5. 71 4 de petits soldats de plomb: 'little lead soldiers', cf. note to 1 5.
Besides she is not good, and with all the appearances of brutal frankness, she knows what is to be false when she needs it. As to her talent, she has it but not so much as she imagines herself; besides she is full of german vanity. Now l'éreintement est aussi complet que possible.
He spent the winters of 1861-1864 in Algeria, Corsica, and Provence. These voyages were of vital importance in his development. He learned something of the world and became better fitted to study conditions in his own narrow sphere; at the same time he acquired the power of vigorous description and collected material for some of his finest short stories and for the Tartarin series.
4 32 deuil: faire son deuil d'une chose = 'to go into mourning about a thing, 'to give it up for lost'.
However right Spain may be in the end, the origin of the quarrel will be tainted.... In recomending to you really and strenuous endeavours the attempt to bring the Spanish government to a more tractable state with respect to this unfortunate dispute, I must leave to you the manner of going to work.
Mme. de la Fayette, whose maiden name was Marie-Magdeleine Pioche de La Vergne, was born at Paris in 1634. Her father belonged to the lesser nobility, and was for awhile governor of Pontoise, and later of Havre.
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