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[Footnote 58: #par état#, _by my profession_ as _maître des
requêtes_.]
[Footnote 59: #tiens de#, _take after_, or _inherit from_.]
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[Footnote 60: #pointe#, like #fougueux# and #enfourcher# below,
is in this sense (_dawns, rises_) rhetorical and poetic.]
[Footnote 61: #emporté#, _carried the day_.]
[Footnote 62: #provoquer#, i.e., to a duel such as became almost
epidemic in France in the years that followed Waterloo (1815).]