saccadées 'jerky

155. cent. N,B, No s, because hère the cardinal number ^ stands for the ordinal {cent for centième) = * year one hundredth,* and not *one hundred years.'

The toast implied that the Republic would last three hundred years : but five years after Bonaparte got himself crowned as Emperor Napoléon i., and established the most autocratie of govemments. Kleber had guessed Bonaparte's ambition, and thought this a good joke, thus drawing down upon himself Bonaparte's displeasure.