Note 13 — Section 106. THE DRAMA OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION OF 1848. VI.
Reading edition
And — near = And now we approach (sich nähern, with Dat.) the end (Schluß, m.) of our first tableau. The French ‘tableau’ is used with French pronunciation in the same sense in German. It is of the neuter gender and takes the inflection of an s in the Gen. Sing.