on
to celebrate the destruction of the Tarasque. Martha is the patron saint
of Tarascon See "Port-Tarascon," I, iv (pp 73 ff)--_faisait les cent
coups._ 'was playing the hundred tricks,' 'raged.'

_3_ 27 _Il y a beau jour_ '(that was) a long time ago'.

_4_ 1 _tous les dimanches matin:_ 'every Sunday morning ', cf. _tous les
jours_ 'every day' and _le matin_ 'in the morning'_--prend les armes:_
'takes arms' (not "takes its arms "), 'arms itself '.

_4_ 3 _tremblement:_ 'whole lot,' 'noisy throng,' colloquial.

_4_6 _Si ... que_ + subjunctive = 'however ', cf. _67_ 12-13, _78_ 18-19
--_bete:_ a pun on the word _bete,_ which means as a noun 'animal,' as an
adjective 'foolish'--_vous pensez bien:_ 'you can readily imagine', cf.
_7_ 10, _9_ 7, _12_ 3, _23_ 7, _56_ 17.

_4_ 8 _A cinq lieues_: 'within a radius of five leagues', cf. _48_ 26.

_4_ 9-10 _le moindre_: 'the least'--_le plus petit_: 'the smallest'.

_4_ 14 _Rhone_ 'Rhone,' the great river of southeastern France, in the
heart of Provence--_diablement_: 'deucedly' _Diable_ and _Dieu_ are used
very freely in French.

_4_ 16 _du poil et de la plume_ 'of fur and feathers'--_est tres mal note_
'has a black mark against its name', _noter_= 'to note,' 'to mark,' 'to
make a note of'.

_4_ 19 _Camargue_ a vast marshy delta at the mouth of the Rhone See
Daudet's "En Camargue," in "Lettres de mon moulin".

_4_ 23 _il ne reste plus ... que_: 'there remains nothing now, but'
_Il_ is impersonal, cf. _5_ 23, _8_ 1, _58_ 28 _Ne plus_ = 'no longer,'
_ne que_ = 'only,' the same _ne_ serving for both _plus_ and _que_, cf.
line 30, _23_ 3, 27-28, _ne ... guere que_ _5_ 26, _1_ 17.

_4_ 24 _coquin de lievre_: cf. note to _1_ 12--_echappe ... aux_: note the
use of _a_ with _echapper_, cf. _88_ 22, and _s'arracher a_ _10_ 14
--_septembrisades_ on September 25, 1792, mobs broke into the Paris
prisons and massacred many political prisoners, hence _septembrisade_
'massacre'.

_4_ 27 _le Rapide_: _le (train) rapide_ 'the express train'.

_4_ 30 _A l'heure qu'il est meme_: 'even at the present time'.

_4_ 31 _enrages_ 'stubborn enthusiasts'.

_4_ 32 _deuil_: _faire son deuil d'une chose_ = 'to go into mourning about
a thing,' 'to give it up for lost'.

_5_ 1 _de sa nature_: 'by nature'--_qu'il mange_: _que_ for _bien que_ to
avoid repetition of _6_ 1, _24_ 16, _69_ 9--_hirondelles en salmis_
'stewed swallows' From time immemorial the swallow has been recogmzed as
the frie