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Tartarin de Tarascon

Note 5 — PREMIER ÉPISODE

Reading edition · Edition 2

9 7 lapin: lit. 'rabbit'; familiarly, as here, 'a game one.'--s'y connaissait en lapins: se connaître à or en = 'to be an expert in.' Y in this passage is redundant: it replaces à + eux (cf. note to 2 29), which is repeated in en lapins, cf. 10 30, and the redundant en (note to 8 19).

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