Gardez-Yous de croire pourtant : DonU imagine, however

7. Sedan. At the battle of Sedan, 170 miles north-east of Paris, September i, 1870, the army of Napoléon III. was badly beaten and made prisoner.

8. Alpilles. The same as Alpines, See Tartarin sur les Alpesy page 36.

9. le 4 septembre. The French Republic was proclaimed September 4, 1870, as soon as the news of the disaster at Sedan had become known at Paris.

10. Attila : Attila, the savage king of the Huns, was the terror of Southern Europe from 434 to his death in 453. He is hère taken as the type of the German army.

11. manifestation d'orphéonistes : démonstration 0/ choral societies,

12. orphéon de St. Christophe: society 0/ St. Christopher ; orphéon dénotes the society, and orphéoniste, a member.