French classics read with notes Little Naughty Nicholas

The little mischievous Nicholas has accompanied many French people through a happy childhood, and has countless "little Nicholas fans" in France. Nikolai was a schoolboy who had just started school, and he had a bunch of "die-hards", just a bunch of buddies and brothers in school. These little guys are innocent and happy. Wherever they go, they become chaotic.

"Little Naughty Nicholas" is a masterpiece of collaboration between two French comic book masters. Gusini was responsible for writing the story, and Sambe was responsible for the illustrations. The narrative of the story is also based on the method of comics, and the pictures themselves are also wonderful stories.

Cowboys

I invited the buddies to come home this afternoon to play cowboys. They arrived with all their belongings. Rufus had put on the police officer's panoply that his father had given him with the kepi, the handcuffs, the revolver, the white stick and the whistle on wheels; Eudes was wearing his older brother's old boy scout hat and a belt with piles of wooden cartridges and two cases in which there were terrible revolvers with butts made of the same kind of bone as the powder magazine dad bought mom after they argued over the roast that was overcooked but mom said it was because dad had arrived late. Alceste was in Indian, he had a wooden axe and feathers on his head, he looked like a big chicken; Geoffroy, who likes to dress up and has a very rich dad who gives him everything he wants, was dressed completely as a cowboy, with sheep pants, a leather vest, a checkered shirt, a big hat, capsule revolvers and spurs with terrible spikes. I had a black mask that I had been given for Mardi Gras, my arrow gun and a red handkerchief around my neck which is an old scarf to my mom. We were great!

Panoplie n.f. full armor

Képi n.m. French military cap

menotte n.m.pl. handcuffs

roulette whistle 警哨

Cartouche n.m. bullet

etui n.m boxes, boxes, boxes

Crosse n.f. Stock

Poudrier n.m. Powder cartridge

axe n. f. 斧子

Gilet n.m

Éperon n.m. Spurs

foulard n.m. silk scarf, scarf

chouette adj. Good looking, cute

We were in the garden and mom told us she would call us to taste it.

"Well, I said, so here I am, I am the young man and I have a white horse and you, you are the bandits, but in the end it is me who wins." The others, they didn't agree, that's what's annoying, when you play alone, you don't have fun and when you're not alone, the others make a lot of arguments. "Why wouldn't it be me the young man," Eudes said, "and then why wouldn't I have a white horse, too? "With a head like yours, you can't be the young man," Alceste said. "You, the Indian, shut up or I kick you in the rump!" said Eudes who is very strong and likes to punch the noses of friends and the rump it amazed me, but it's true that Alceste looked like a big chicken. "In any case, I," Rufus said, "I will be the sheriff. "The sheriff?" Geoffroy said. Where did you see a sheriff with a kepi, you make me laugh!" That didn't please Rufus, whose dad is a police officer. "My dad, he said, he wears a kepi and he doesn't make anyone laugh! "He would make everyone laugh if he dressed like that in Texas," Geoffroy said and Rufus slapped him, so Geoffroy pulled a revolver out of the case and he said, "You'll regret it, Joe" and Rufus gave him another slap and Geoffroy fell sitting on the ground pan! with his revolver; then Rufus leaned his hands on his stomach, and he makes heaps of grimaces and he fell saying, "You got me coyote, but I will be avenged!"

embêtant adj. Annoying, annoying

Croupion n.m

Gifle n.f. slap

I was galloping in the garden giving me slaps in the panties to move faster and Eudes approached me. "Get off this horse," he said. The white horse, I have it! "No sir, I told him, here I am at home and the white horse, I am the one who has it," and Eudes punched me on the nose. Rufus blew a big whistle on wheels. "You're a horse thief, he said to Eudes, and in Kansas City, horse thieves, we hang them!" So Alceste came running and he said, "Minute! You can't hang him, the sheriff, it's me! — Since when, poultry? Rufus asked. Alceste, who does not like to fight, took his wooden axe and with the handle, toc! he hit Rufus on the head who did not expect it. Fortunately on Rufus' head there was the kepi. "My kepi! You broke my kepi! He shouted Rufus and started running after Alceste, while I galloped around the garden again.

manche n.m. handle, put

"Hey, guys," Eudes said, "stop! I have an idea. We will be the good ones and Alceste the tribe of Indians and he tries to capture us and then he takes a prisoner, but we arrive and we deliver the prisoner and then Alceste is defeated! We were all for this idea which was really nice, but Alceste did not agree. "Why would I do the Indian?" he said Alceste. "Because you have feathers on your head, idiot! Geoffroy replied, and then if you don't like it, you don't play anymore, it's true that, in the end, you bother us! "Well, since that's the way it is, I don't play anymore," Alceste said, and he went to a sulking corner and ate a chocolate bun he had in his pocket. "He has to play," said Eudes, "he's the only Indian we have by the way, if he doesn't play, I pen him!" Alceste said that well, that he wanted well, but on the condition of being a good Indian in the end. "Okay, okay," said Geoffroy, "what you can be upsetting, all the same! "And who will the prisoner be?" I asked, "Well, it will be Geoffroy," Eudes said, "we're going to tie him to the tree with the clothesline. "It's not okay, right? Geoffroy asked, why me? I can't be the prisoner, I'm the best dressed of all! "Well, what?" Eudes replied, just because I have a white horse doesn't mean I refuse to play! "The white horse is me who has it! I said. Eudes got angry, he said that the white horse was him and that if I didn't like it he would give me another punch on the nose.

Bouder v. Gamble, get angry

contrariant adj. Nasty, love against

"Try it!" I said and he succeeded. "Don't move, Oklahoma Kid!" shouted Geoffroy, and he fired revolvers everywhere; Rufus, on the other hand, was blowing a whistle on wheels and he would say, "Yeah, I'm the sheriff, yeah, I'll arrest you all!" and Alceste hit him with an axe on the kepi saying he was taking him prisoner and Rufus got angry because his roller whistle had fallen into the grass, I was crying and telling Eudes that here I was at home and didn't want to see him anymore; everyone was screaming, it was nice, we were laughing well, terrible.

And then, Dad came out of the house. Looking not happy. "Well kids, what is this din, you don't know how to have fun nicely? "It's because of Geoffroy, sir, he doesn't want to be the prisoner!" said Eudes. "Do you want my hand on the face?" Geoffroy asked and they started fighting again, but Dad separated them.

Vacarme n.m. Noisy, noisy

"Come on, kids, he said, I'll show you how to play. The prisoner will be me!" We were very happy! He's nice my dad! We tied Dad to the tree with the clothesline and as soon as we were finished, we saw Mr. Blédurt jump over the hedge of the garden.

haie n.f. fence

Mr. Blédurt, it is our neighbour who likes to tease Dad. "I also want to play, I will be the redskin Taurus Standing! "Get out of here Blédurt, we didn't ring you! »

Taquiner v. tease, tease

Mr. Blédurt he was great, he stood in front of Dad with his arms crossed and he said: "Let the pale face hold his tongue!" Dad was making funny efforts to detach himself from the tree and Mr. Blédurt began to dance around the tree while screaming.

We would have liked to stay to see Dad and Mr. Blédurt have fun and do the guignols, but we could not because Mom called us to taste it and then we went to my room to play the electric train. What I didn't know was that Dad loved playing cowboys so much. When we went down in the evening, Mr. Blédurt had long since left, but Dad was still tied to the tree screaming and making faces.

Faire le guignol pretended to be funny

It's nice to know how to have fun on your own, like that!