la grâce de 1806, “ the style in the year

76, 1. depuis Sedan, depuis la bataille de Sedan. Sedan is a northern French town where the French were decisively defeated (September 2, 1870).

77, 1. L’indemnité de guerre. The truth is that France, beside losing the provinces of Alsace-Lorraine (see note, p. 3, subtitle), paid to Germany one thousand million dollars.