80 10 Va te promener! cf. note to 48 11.
80 13 six cent mille dents: each Arab had 150 teeth! Which goes to show that Daudet himself was born not far from Tarascon. But it is to be remembered that six cent mille is sometimes used merely to indicate a very large number, like English "thousands of."
80 14 dut: cf. note to 67 7.
80 19 devant: devant for avant, auparavant, is obsolete except in certain locutions such as comme devant.
80 25 douar: 'douar,' an Arab village, composed of tents arranged with more or less regularity.--plaine du Cheliff: the broad part of the Sheliff basin is in the half desert plateau between the Great Atlas and the Little Atlas. The picture which follows is interesting, it is overdrawn, however, since Algeria never was, and certainly is not today, as bad as Daudet paints it.
80 27 se compliquent d': 'are complicated by (the addition of).'
80 28 Zouzou: military slang for zouave.
81 1 le sergent La Ramée, le brigadier Pitou: popular names for the French soldier, the English "Tommy Atkins."