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Pavenue de la Grande-Armée. See note 12 above

25. Il n’en fut pas autre chose = il n'y eut pas autre chose or ce fut tout.

79, 14. Lutzen, a village in Saxony where Napoléon I defeated the Russians and the Prussians in 1813.

19. Aussi. Note the inverted construction after aussi and see note, p. 31, 1. 10.

22. aux Tuileries. The long avenue referred to is the Avenue de la Grande-Armée continued by the Avenue des Champs-

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Élysées. The palace of the Tuileries, a former royal and impérial résidence, was burned by the Communists. (See notes, p. 30, 1. 5; and p. 35, 1. 13).

26. Milhaud (Jean-Baptiste), a very well known general of cavalry under Napoléon I.

80, 5. avec des croix rouges, the fîags of the Red Cross Society.

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