passer par les armes, to exécute^ shoot

Page 52. — i. prennent à iémomy appeal to ; lit., ** take for witness.*'

2. litote. This figure of speech consists in saying less than is really meant.

3. brave à trois poils, ^rv-tfâ/^r, a figure probably taken from velours à trois poilsy velvet woven with three silk threads.

Page 58. — i. faisait fende tous les \owmBXJif worked the papers for ail they were worth ; lit., " fired ofî ail the papers."

Page 54. — i. Machiavel. The name of Machiavelli, the Italian statesman and historian, and author of the celebrated book on diplomatie conduct entitled the Prince^ has become somewhat unjustly the patronymic for ail nnscrupulously cunning men, because of the principles of . despotism and expediency laid down in that work. Machiavelli was bom in Florence in 1469 and died in the same city in 1527.

Page 60. — I. miXim^ knomng ones.

Page 9\» — I. bouchon, a favorite game among soldiers, consisting in knocking pennies off a cork, at a distance of a f ew paces, with a heavy coin. Piquet, a scientific card-game.

Page 62, — i . coryza, cold in the head.

Page 64. — i. faites l'appel nominal, ccUl the rolL