chef-lieu = "county seat

118, 4. 29® bulletin: i.e., from the army of Napoléon engaged in the disastrous Russian campaign of 181 2. This bulletin reported ^^

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the arrivai of the remnant of the retreating army in Poland, 26 to 2^ November.

117, 2. Maintenon (Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de). At first in charge of the children of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan she later supplanted the latter as the king's mistress and was married to him on the death of his wife (163 5-1 719).

19. Samson. For the well-known story of Sampson and the pillars of the temple, see Judges, 16, 23-30.

118, 3. café au lait frappé de glace » ^'coffee with iced milk."

6. Miéris ("s" sounded), Franz van (1635-1681), Dutch painter. — Terburg or Terborch (Gérard), Dutch genre painter (1608-1681).