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13. Une guerre de partisans, a partisan war, one which con. sists in surprising the enemy’s convoys and performing other feats of desultory warfare,

25. Réquisition, a levy, decreed by the Convention, calling out all Frenchmen not married, and from eighteen to twenty-five years of age.

16. Morsieur, the title given to the elcest brother of the king from the seventeenth century ; Monsieur le Comte d'Artois (Charles X ) was the last who bore that title.

32. L'acquittement des bons, the paying of the bis; bills generally begin with the words, ‘ Bon pour la somme de , . . "—(.e., this is good for the sum of , . ., hence the name ‘‘ bon ” for bill,

2. Bons anciens, an apo:trophe, good people of the olden times,

33. Panthéon, one of the finest monuments in Paris ; originally the church of ‘Ste, Geneviève,” the patron Saint of Paris The French Assembly in 1791 decreed that it should be called ‘‘ Panthéon,” and become a monument erected to the memory of great men; it bore on its frontispiece the words, ‘* Aux grands hommes la patrie reconnaissante ; ” in 1852 it was once more restored to its original destination,

13. Embaucher les soldats, to gain over the soldiers, to induce them to desert ; from en in, and bauche a place (where work is done, where a workman is employed)z ‘““débaucher” means to entice away (from work or right) ; embaucher and débaucher are used by workmen in the sense of to b: gin and to leave off work.

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previous sense that of meanness and cowardice ; ‘‘ in. sulter à la faiblesse,” is to take advantage of weakness to insult it.

13. Viné mouiller, came and cast anchor ; l’ancre,”’ to anchor,

16. La réaction thermidorienne, sce Republican Calendar, p. 142, ‘9 and 10 thermidor,”