au petit Jour, 'at dawn

1. 11. U7i poste de garde...' \.he soldiers of a guard-house are dressirg their wigs'. Soldiers in 1799 ^l'" ^^^^ iheir back hair in pig-tails.

1. 14 a7i combat de la veille contre Linken, 'in tlie figlit with Linken the day before'. See Introd. p. xii.

1. 21. la carmagnole, a Republican song in vogue at Paris in 1793, where it was sung as an accompaniinent to a round dance. It was also the nanic given to a kind of coat with broad collar and several rows of métal buttons in front.

1. 27. le kaiserlick, 'the Austriaii'. This terni, a corruption of kaiscrlich (Impérial), \\as applied by the French soldiers to ail Gernians, but chicfly to Austrians.

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1. 5. ils s'en fassent des agréments en campagne, 'they allow themselves comforts on the mardi'; s'en passer, with a subst. in a partitive sensé, = 'to enjoy'.

1. 10. s'il y a moyen de se renipper, 'whether I shall be able to set niysclf up again' ; renipper\% Cmx'w^nX hom nippe, 'apparel', 'clolhes'.