_Fortune, infortune, fort une_ (Vol. iv., pp. 57. 142.).--The
explanation offered by a writer in the _Magasin Pittoresque_ for 1850,
seems perfectly clear without the proposed transposition of the adverb
_fort_ into _fait_ of your correspondent D. C.
If the sentence be read according to the French explanation D. C. has
quoted, viz. by reading _infortune_ as a verb, _fort_ the adverb to it,
it must be plain that the reading of the sentence must be:
"Fortune fort infortune une."
(Fortune very much afflicts one.)
If we turned _fort_ into _fait_, it would entirely spoil the sentence.
Query, But _is_ "infortuner" to be found as a verb in any old
dictionary? We have the adjective "infortuné," which looks much like a
participle.