[ 5.] Si le coeur vous en dit, "If your mind (inclination) tells you (to do so, have supper with us);" if you feel inclined, take supper with us.
[ 6.] beau temps, good weather.
[ 7.] lui, omit in translating; it is merely emphatic.
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[ 1.] sifflions, used to whistle; i.e. in admiring amazement.
[ 2.] vieille, emphatic.
[ 3.] Salm-Salm, a district of southwestern Germany.
[ 4.] le plus grand usurier, the most notorious money lender.
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[ 1.] Les Républicains, see Introduction, § 5.
[ 2.] le Palatinat, the lower Palatinate, of which region Anstatt was a part.
[ 3.] les trois électeurs, so called because they elected (or at least had the right of electing) the emperors of Germany. They were the archbishops of Trèves, Mainz, and Cologne. An account may be found in Bryce, Holy Roman Empire.