guerriers, used as adjective, E.B

1. 22. poudrés. The wearing of hair-powder by gentlemen of position was then rather old-fashioned. In the early part of the Revolution it was still in vogue in France, and those of the upper classes who wished to avoid suspicion discarded it.

1. 24. à travers, 'behind' ; au travers de would be out of place here; it often implies that one makes one's way through anything with effort.