dur à la peine, plodding

5. P homme des coups de main, the man for a dash or a surprise. Coup de main, hère a sudden attempty a dash, It is aJso used for a help^ ing hand.

6. '92. In 1792, France abolished monarchy, delared itself a republic, and entered upon her glorious single-handed struggle against almost the whole of Europe, although war was not begun till the foUowing year.

7. 1800-1814, the years during which Napoléon Bonaparte, first as. Consul, then as Emperor (1804) overran Italy (1800), Austria (1805 and 1809), Germany (1806-7), Spain and Portugal (1808), and Russia (1812).

Page 87. — i. pas de chef de train, nobody to take the train out ; lit., " conductor," but the conductor would net ride on the engine.

2. à l'ordre du jour de Parmée, speciaîly commended for gaîlant conduct.