deux fois à Paris, in 1814 and

1. 1%. Cadix (L. Gades), blockaded in 18 10 by the French under Marshal Victor. Moscow (in Russian, Moskwa) taken by the French in 1812. There is a spécial force in thèse two names, besides the fact that the towns indicated are at the opposite extrêmes of Europe. It was in Spain and Russia that Napoléon suffered those defeats which primarily led to his fall.

1. 31. n'en seraient pas pour cela plus à louer =ne seraient pas, quant à leur conduite, plus à louer pour cela.

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1. I. Le public, etc. Compare the well-known sayingthat the House of Gommons is wiser than any single member of it.