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54-1: =la orden=: cf. note _orden_, p. 39, 1.

54-2: =Chateaubriand= (1768-1848): a great French writer. He chose to
be a kind of official paladin of Catholicism.

54-3: =del hacha=: cf. note _al ave_, p. 25, 3.

55-1: =echar por tierra=: _throw to the ground_.

55-2: =Don Quijote, Sancho Panza=: the would-be knight errant and his
squire, the chief figures of Cervantes' immortal story of Don Quixote,
published in 1605. The passage is from part II, cap. XLII, _sub fine_.

55-3: =Guerra de la Independencia=: (1808-1814): the war waged
against Napoleon, who invaded Spain in 1808.

55-4: =ha de transigir=: _must compromise_. Cf. note _habia de