nous avions beau. See note, p

28. Mayence, Mainz, a German city on the left bank of the Rhine.

74, 9. sitôt dehors = sitôt hors de Paris = aussitôt qu'il aurait été hors de Paris.

16. que nous donnaient . . . frontières. The logical construction would be: que les portes de Paris fermées, la bataille sous les murs , nos banlieues devenues frontières , nous donnaient à tous. Note the concision of this sentence.

75, 8. le roi de Rome, the King of Rome, the title of the son of Napoléon I and Marie-Louise; after the first abdication of his father (1814) he was given the title of Duke of Reichstadt (1811- 1832).

11. un rocher de Sainte-Hélène, a piece of rock or more prob-

NOTES

ably a reproduction of Saint Helena, a small island in the Atlantic Océan, belonging to the English, where Napoléon I was sent after his second abdication (1815) and died (1821).