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Page 27. — i. la grande exilée, viz., the Republic.

Page 28. — i. les causes bien exactes. As a matter of fact the Prussians had to collect, move, and provide for enormous masses of troops, and the two weeks they took to cover the 170 miles between Sedan and Paris could only seem long to the excitement of the Parisians.