une excellente pièce, an excellent trick

!.. 112. Si fait, yç& mà%tà.='L. sic factum.

L 115. Colmar (L. Argentaria, Columbaria, Colmaria), the chief ^ place of the department of the Haut Rhin, formerly capital of Upper Alsace, was annexed to France at the Treaty of Ryswick (1697) ; now belongs to Germany.

yy servais, i,e. in the army.

IL 115, 116. car je n* ai jamais pu,.. interrompu. Charles means hère that he has never till then been able to tell the whole story of his love from beginning to end.