à la grande bataUlCt the battle of Morat

1. II. quatre florins par mois, four and a hcdfyrzs the rate Louis gave, but he thought René could get his Swiss cheaper. However, René had to pay the extra amount by borrowing, or his army would hâve dispersed.

1. 13. les bannières des cantons. A mistake. Luceme alone sent îts banner. René had asked for the banners, with the recognized chie£s of the cantons and vétéran soldiers, but in vain.

1. 24. un hiver de Moscou, alluding to the terrible winter which destroyed Napoleon*s great army in its retreat from Moscow in 1812.

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1. 5. Ce pauvre gentilhomme* He was SufTren de Baschi, René*s maître d hôtel.

1. 15. il se faisait fort, "he promised,** dedared himsdf ready, engaged.

de lui tuer le duc, **to kiU the Duke for him.**

1. 23. le duc n^en avait que quatre mille. So say the historians, but this seems improbable. Kirk (Charles the Bold, vol. m. p. 472) argues from the facts of the case that Charles had about twice this number.

1. 30. le roi de Portugal. Alfonso V., who reigned 1438 — 1481. He was trying to obtain support abroad for his designs on Castile.