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Rocroy, victory of the French over the Spaniards in

5. Loudun, scène of the revolting witchcraft-trial of Urbain Grandier, at the instigation of Richelieu, in 1634.

6. Condé (i 588-1646), not to be confused with the great Condé, one of the greatest French gênerais, his son.

Page 41« — I. Les grands militaires; the most important of this list are Harcourt and Gassion.

2. Sedan, on the eastern frontier, later the scène of the defeat of the French by the Prussians in 1870, which caused the fall of the empire.

3. Anne d'Autriche; Anne of Austria, the wife of Louis XIII., was a Spaniard.

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