Indiana (Oxford World's Classics)
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La Saline: a village about ten kilometres from St Paul.
satanite: a Breton name for a petrel. Many Breton sailors came to Bourbon Island and left their mark on the local language.
piragua: a long narrow canoe hollowed from the trunk of a single tree.
Medina-Sidonia: a noble Spanish family which took its name from a province of Cadiz. A Duke of Medina Sidonia was Commander of the Spanish Armada (1588–9).
Louis XV’s century: the eighteenth century.
Anne Page: one of the characters in Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor.
Boucher: French painter (1703–70) of charming pastoral and mythological themes.
national property: property belonging to aristocrats which was confiscated at the Revolution became national property and then sold. At the restoration indemnity was paid to the previous owners.
indemnity: see previous note.
lago: the traitor in Shakespeare’s Othello.
revolution in Paris: the 1830 Revolution, in which Charles X was deposed and Louis-Philippe came to the throne. The prefect of the Gironde Department, in which Bordeaux is situated, was opposed to the Revolution and loyal to Charles X. Consequently he was manhandled by the crowd and barely escaped with his life.
Les Quinconces: a large esplanade in Bordeaux, renowned for its size.
the turn political events had taken: the disturbances of mob violence were soon brought under control and the Revolution took on a relatively conservative character with the accession of Louis-Philippe.
three per cent: since 1825 dividends on investments had greatly declined. At the same time, women’s hats had decreased in size.
the faithful dog: the next few lines refer to incidents in Bernardin de St Pierre’s novel Paul et Virginie (cf. note to p. 40 above).
Domingue: a character in Paul et Virginie.
sunbirds: birds which live in the sugar-canes. There is a variety peculiar to Bourbon Island.
favourite heroes: Paul and Virginie.
Red River: in Paul et Virginie, the river is Black River. George Sand seems to have misremembered. The lines which follow refer to incidents in Bernardin de St Pierre’s novel.
waxbills: a kind of sparrow common in parts of Asia and Africa, including Bourbon Island.
J. Néraud: Jules Néraud was a friend of George Sand’s who taught her botany.
Brûlé de Saint-Paul: Indiana and Ralph had a long steep climb to the Brûlé de Saint-Paul, which is 2,000 metres high and twelve kilometres from Saint-Paul.
vacoa: a kind of palm-tree found in the African islands of the Indian ocean.
the angel of Abraham and Tobias: in Gen. 22, God tests Abraham’s faith by commanding him to sacrifice his son, Isaac, but just as he is about to kill the boy an angel calls on Abraham to stay his hand, his faith having been proved by his willingness to obey God’s command. The story of Tobias is told in the Apocrypha in the Book of Tobit. An angel tells Tobias, son of Tobit, how to cure his father’s blindness and guides him towards his future wife.
Indian cottage: a reference to Bernardin de St Pierre’s novel The Indian Cottage (1791). In it a learned traveller in search of wisdom and truth finds them only in the cottage of an Indian pariah.
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Twenty Years After
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La Dame aux Camélias
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Madame Bovary
A Sentimental Education
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VICTOR HUGO
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Notre-Dame de Paris
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