Vie et bagues sauves, Life and rings safe, see

note page 29, 1. 21.

55. — 1. Son étemel Vaîmy, son sempiternel Jetnappes, Hîs eternal Valmy, his everlasting Jemappes.

Valmy (September 20), Jemappes (November 6, 1792), the two first battles won by the French armies o ver the allied powers of Europe, shortly af ter the breaking out of the Révolution. The truly brilliant period of war and conquest, however, did not begin for France imtil a few years later, when Napoléon I came upon the scène.

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56. — 6. Pour Vacquit de ma conscience. For conscience sake. Acquit, lit. : discharge.

59.— 8. Et du même coup il s'avisa que,.. And ail at once, he noticed that...

61. — 6. La philosophie d'Horatio, Refers to Shakespeare*s " Hamlet, " Act I, Se. V, after tbe apparition of the ghost of Hamlet's father.

Horatio :

O day and night, but this is wondrous strange.

Hamlet :

And therefore, as a stranger, give it welcome.

fhere are more things in heaven and earth,

[Horatio,

Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.