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70 5 brancards: a stage-coach has no shafts. Brancards is used also for the two pieces of wood which connect the fore and after carriages of a vehicle, transl. 'body. Daudet may mean simply 'pole. 70 6 tenez! lit. 'hold! An exclamation whose force varies greatly; transl. here 'just see that! 70 8 gouvernement: 'seat of government', cf. note to 42 1. 70 9 plus rien: cf. note to 13 1.
74 16 train de derrière: 'hind quarters, train de devant = 'fore quarters, of an animal; properly applied only to an animal harnessed to a vehicle. 74 17 Qu'est-ce ... plus? colloquial construction; transl. 74 26 promenaient: note the active use of this verb, cf. monter 41 28.
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