a dû, has been obliged

Page 23. — i. qui déjeunait, breakfasting,

2. nous les menons tambour battant, we hâve had our own way with them ; lit., we hâve led them with beating drum,

3. en auraient vu des dures, would hâve seen some hard times, After dures supply choses.

156 HISTOIRE d'un conscrit DE 1813.

Page 24. — i. les derniers des derniers, the very last. The words are repeated' for emphasis.

2. The " Roi de Rome" was the son of Napoléon ; born 181 1, died

Page 25* — l. à vue d^œil, visibly, evidently,