US ont prévenus, 'hâve anlicipated us

L 12. c'était de vous prévenir, 'was to inform you'. Note the two distinct meanings oi prévenir, (ij 'to forestali', (2) 'to warn'.

1. 36. comme une bête fauve, 'like a wild deer'. Fauve, 'tawny', from (jtxm.. falb.

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1. 11. ont passé la Limmat, 'hâve crossed the Limmat' ; see Introd. p. viii.

1. 34. qui a parlé de se reftdre ?...'Who has spoken of surrender? Let him be slain and torn asunder'. Se rendre— (i) 'to surrender', (2) 'to betake one's self, 'to go to a place'.

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1. 11. n'importe, 'no matter' ; elliptic for il n'importe pas.

1. 33. Varmée va trai'erser le Schiechenthal; the track followed by the Russian army leads from the Schàchenthal to the Muotta-Thal, over the Kinzig-Culm pass, at an élévation of above 7000 feet.

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1. 6. il s'agit de gagner f ennemi de vitesse, 'our object is to steal a march on the enemy ' ; passer sur le corps à = ' to crush '. 1. 21. au besoin, 'if need be'.

1. 8. les sottises des généraux d'antichambre, 'the blunders of thèse drawing-room gênerais'.

1. 15. le chant de ^la Marseillaise' . This Hymn or March of La Marseillaise, the most stirring musical composition ever promulgated, was written by Rouget de L'isle. Danton, to drive the foreigner out of France, asked for 400 men who knew how to die. The appeal was answered by 400 Alarseillais, who marched from their town to Paris singing Rouget de L'Isle's song. Such is the origin of that wonderful La Marseillaise, — a song in which the cry of the people for freedom has ever since found a readyniade utterance ; a song, the sound of which then made the blood tingle in men's veins and which whole armies sang with eyes burning and hearts défiant of death.

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This Tableau shows us the Fiench troops under General Molitor encamped near a village of the Klonthal ; they hâve defeated Jellachich's forces and also Linken's, and are now preparing to check the advance of ihe Russians, vvho are marcliing from Muotta towards Glarus, by the pass of Mount Pràgel. Ogiski appears disguised as a Swiss peasant ; lie lias now accomplished his task as a spy, and begs of Molitor the favour of serving as a volunteer in the P'rench army. The playful hanter of victorious soldiers with which the Tableau begins, and ihe arrivai at the camp of a Russian flag of truce, bring before us fresli scènes of military life.

1. 5. Jiangar en flanches, 'cart-shed made of planks' = 'a wooden shed'.

1. 6. on ne fait qiC entrer et sortir, 'there is a constant going in and out' ; ne faire que implies constant action ; ne faire que de, an action just completed ; e.g. il ne fait que de sortir ='he bas this moment gone out'.