3. un bon sur la caisse des fermiers généraux: ‘a check on the treasury of the Farmers-General.’ The Farmers-General were various privileged financiers who farmed or leased the public revenues of France before the Revolution.
[129], 4. souscrite à: ‘endorsed to.’
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22. Si, vraiment: ‘Yes, indeed.’
[130], 2. fanatiques: ‘admirers.’
25. par-dessous main: ‘secretly.’
[131], 21. a dénoncé ce fait à l’ambassadeur tartare: ‘announced this fact to the Russian ambassador.’
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[133], 7. Si: ‘Yes, I can.’
[134], 15. Bien cela! ‘Well said!’