adorable préchi-prêcha : delightful preachments

47. retraite de Russie. Napoléon occupied Moscow, the ancient capital of Russia, in the middle of September, 181 2. The Russians soon after bumed the dty to prevent his wintering there, and a month later the French army was forced to retreat from the country. Frozen by the snowy blasts of winter, and harassed by the Russian army, nearly the whole of the French force perished.

48^ la porte Maillot. The principal western gateway of the fortifications of Paris, about three quarters of a mile west of the Place de l'Etoile, and at the end of the Avenue de la Grande Armée.

49. Invalides. Les Invalides is the name of a large ** Soldiers' Home " in the south western part of Paris. It was built by Louis XIV., and under the center of the gilded dôme of its church rests the magnificent sarcophagus of the first Napoléon.

50. le jeudi de Buzenyal. On Thursday, January 19, 1871, the Parisian troops succeeded in taking a Prussian redoubt on the heights of Buzenval just west of the dty. It was, however, of no service to them.