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, , 24. la. légitimité : the Legitimists only recognised the Bourbons and the white flag. It was only after the Révolution of July 1830 that Louis-Philippe d'Orléans, 'Roi des Français,' of the second branch of the Bourbon family, accepted otficially the ' tricolour ' as the national flag.

,, ,, le gouvernement des barricades : see notes p. 10, 1. ir, and p. 17, 1. 23.

48. 14. lignes de Wissembourg : a line of fortifications extending

from Weissenburg to Lauterburg (Alsace-Lorraine).

,, 15. homicide point ne seras! the French version of the Sixth Commandnient.

,, 19. l'armée de Condé : Condé (Louis-Joseph, Prince de, 1736- 1818), the fourth descendant of the great Condé, emigrated from France in 1789, and placed himself at the head of an army composed of Royalists, known under the name of Armée de Condé, in order to march against the French Revolutionists. After a splendid, but unsuccessful, fight at Weissenburg, the Prince de Condé disbanded his army, and retired to England. Ile returned to France under Louis XVIII. To hini France owes the érection of the Palais-Bourbon, now called Chatnbre des Députés, in Paris.

,, 26. prévint: note the following uses o{ prévenir : {a) to stop, to hinder, to prevent a thing ; [b] to warn a person, to inform beforehand ; [c] to forestall, to anticipate ; e.g. je voulais avoir cette place, mais il m a prévenu, ' I wanted to get the situation, but he forestalled me.'

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