Donnait sur, Opened upon, f ronted

18. Chevalier de Saint-Louis, A French order of knighthood founded by Louis XIV. in 1693 for military service. No knights of this order hâve been created since 1830.

23. La Restauration, An important historical term used in a double sensé : to designate, first, the retum of the Bourbons to the throne of France in 1815, after the dotmfall of Napoléon; secondly, the period of their supremacy from 1815 to 1830, when the family was again expelled from the country, giving way to the House of Orléans, or the junior line, in the person of Louis-Philippe, a cousin of the deposed monarch. Two kings reigned from 1815 to 1830 : Louis XVm (1814-1824) and Charles X (1824-1830), bothbrothers of Louis XVI, guillotined in 1793. The partisans of the deposed line, unwilling to recognize the weaker dynastie claims of the new king raised to power by the Révolution of 1830, styled themselves légitimistes, 10. 1. La majorité, fixée à vingt-cinq ans, According to French law, a son under 25 and a daughter under 21 cannot contract marriage without the consent of the parents. Until 30 years for sons and 25 for daughters marriage may be contracted against the consent of the parents, but only after the f ormality called sommation respectueuse, made through a notary. Hence, not till after the âge of 30 is the son able to dispense v^ith the parental veto on the choice of a wif e.

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10. 4. Metz (pronounoe ^és5). An important city of the Lorraine région, with a history reaching back to Koman times. In the middle âges it was a free impérial city. It belonged to France from 1552 to 1870, when it again became Gterman. It figured prominently in the Franco-Prussian War as the scène of severe fighting, a siège, and Bazaine^s surrender with 176,000 men to the German army. Situated on the Moselle, in the German Lorraine ceded by France in 1871, it is of great stratégie importance, and is one of the strongest fortresses ^ in Europe.