Emboîter le pas. — To lock up in marching

88. Boulet. — Chain and bail; military punishment. 90. P&wrou que la guerre etc. — See note, page 6.

93. De quel lois je me chauffe.. — What métal I am made of. Anciens, vétérans. — The first of thèse words is in gênerai use

in very familiar style; preceded by the article, it is used in addressing those who hâve been longer en^ged in some pursuit than the speaker, as Bonjowr V ancien! Vétéran, on the contrary, isapplied specially to a soldier no longer in active service, andis not (leemed à title of honor when used for one actually performing militaiT duty; hence the distinction that is kept up in the speeches oi the conscripts throughout this work.

Derrière le violon, il y a de la place pour s'aligner. — Behind the lockup, there is room to hâve it out. S^aligner is, properly, to fall into line; it is frequently used as above in the sensé of, to fight, but only in very familiar style.

94. Qui se fendait. —Who was making a lunge, or thrust. École de peloton. — Squad-drill.

95. Le hram des braves. — The bravest of the brave, i.e., Marshal Ney. He won this name from the army at Friedland in

96. Oafrnisaires.—'EdMiïlS*^ men, offlcers placcd in the houses of tax-payers in arrears, popularly called mangeurs.

99. Tugend-Bund. — Literally, the bond of virtue; a secret Society formed by the students in Germany in 1813, having for îts object the expulsion of the French from the territory of GJermany. It waa dissolved in 1815.

Dans le temps. — Pormerly.