INTRODUCTION VU

time. In the Notes will be found explanations of historical matters net connectée! with any one person or place, and also such help on points of language as may be required by readers who are no longer in the very first stage of their study of French.

The excellent German édition of this text, by Dr. U. Cosack of Bremen (Leipzig, 1891) has been invaluable in the préparation of the présent édition, by afïording, among other things, the German view of the events of 1870-1871.

It is hoped that the two maps which accompany the Notes

will be found of much use in giving reality to the stratégie

and other movements described or referred to in the

text.