69 2 que je le regrette: 'how I long for it.' Regretter = 'to regret,' 'to regret the loss or the absence of' a thing, hence 'to long for' a thing. For the anticipatory le cf. note to 32 5.
69 4 il fallait me voir: cf. note to 24 3.
69 5 vernissées a neuf: 'varnished so that they shone like new.'
69 8 sur l'air de: 'to the tune of.'--Lagadigadeou (pronounce dèou): the refrain of Desanat's version of Tarascon's most popular song may be translated as follows: Lagadigadeou, la Tarasque--La Tarasque du Château--Un air de lagadeou--Qui résonne (resounds) à tout rompre (cf. note to 2 2) avec son tapage. Notre-Dame du Château is a place of pilgrimage near Tarascon. Lagadigadeou is meanmgless. For the Tarasque cf. note to 3 25. For this song as a Provençal carter's song, see F.Gras, "The Terror," ch xxxiii.
69 9 que: cf. note to 5 1.
69 10 jetant d'un tour de bras: 'throwing with a swing'; of à tour de bras 'with all one's might'; cf. note to 51 20.
69 12 allume: exclamation serving to encourage horses: 'quick, now!'
69 15 détaler: the opposite of étaler (cf. note to 37 22), = 'to bring in goods exposed for sale,' 'to shut up shop,' and figuratively, in familiar discourse, 'to dash away,' 'scurry along'; cf. 94 13.--grande route royale: 'king's highway.'