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The Spahis are French cavalry reserved for service in Africa.
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Savate: an old shoe.
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Guilbert de Pixérécourt, French dramatist (1773-1844).
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Gaspard Puget, the sculptor-architect, was born at Marseilles in 1615.
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The Carolina—not Virginia—jessamine, gelsemium sempervirens (properly speaking not a jessamine at all) has yellow blossoms. The reference is no doubt to the Wistaria frutescens.—Ed…
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The miser in Molière’s comedy of L’Avare.—Ed.
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