Paris assiégé. See note, p

5. au rond-point de l’Etoile, generally called Place de l’Étoile (the Square of the Star) in the center of which the Arc de Triomphe (de l’Étoile, 1. 7), arises; at the western end of the Champs-Élysées.

12. lourd ... de désastres. The disasters referred to are the consecutive defeats of the French by the Germans at Wissembourg (August 4, 1870), at Reichshoffen (August 6) and at Gravelotte (August 16).

14. du premier Empire, i. e., of the reign of Napoléon I (1804-

NOTES

20. La nouvelle de Wissembourg for La nouvelle de la défaite de

Wissembourg.

21. Napoléon, i. e., Napoléon III, a nephew of Napoléon I and emperor of the French from 1852 to 1870.

71, 3. il devait être . . . “ lie must hâve been.”