à force, in plenty

1. 24. vieux Rire. In the following lines note that this Rire has, after its long way through war and civil strife, become the bitter laughter of to-day.

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Ils ont réglé longtemps les pas des bataillons. (M S.) 1. 30. têtes royales , i.e. those of Louis XVI, his Queen, and bis sister Elizabeth.

1. 31. le fatal tombereau^ the cart in which the condemned people were brought to the guillotine.

1. 32. plus d'un grand homme: outside politics, first of ail André Chénier and Lavoisier.