dur à la peine, plodding

5. Phomme des coups de main, the man for a dash or a surprise. Coup de main^ hère a sudden attempt^ a dash. It is also used for a helping hand.

6. '92. In 1 792, 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. 1800-18 14, 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 37. — i. pas de chef de train, nobody to take the train out ; lit., " conductor," but the conductor would not ride on the engine.

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