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mille: When written miH What does milles signify

86, 6. rne du Cardinal-Lemoine: street southeast of central Paris, a short distance east of the École Polytechnique, the Lycée Henri IV ^ and the Panthéon, See notes 60, 19; 68, 15.

16. me de Sennes: a street west of the Latin quarter (see note 68, 15.), running southwesterly from the church iS^/.-Cr^rmain-cUs-Prés (see note 142, 18.) to the railway station Mont^Parnasse, It connects the boulevards St, Germain and Mont-Parnasse,

87, 4. bonlevard ICalesherbes : running north-northwest from the Madeleine Church, in one of the finest quarters of Paris.

8. Aiinconrt: Agincourt, a village in northern France, near which, in 1415,

Henry V. of England defeated the French.

9. Pavie : Pavia, a city in northern Italy, where in the year 1525, Francis I., king of France, who commanded in person, was defeated by the Imperialists, and taken prisoner. Malplaqnet: a village in the north of France. In 1709 the English under the Duke of Marlborough and the Austrians under Prince Eugène hère claimed a victory over the French.

Itosbach: At Rossbach, Prussia, in 1757, Frederick the Great defeated a French army that was twice as large as his own.

30, II. Salette: village and church in southeastern France, near Grenoble, celebrated for the appearance of the virgin in 1846.

40, 16. solfatare: '' solfatara," ground f rom which vapors and sulphurous gases are emitted. The name is applied especially to a place of this nature not far from Naples.

41, 4. levées: **raised," hence "closed."

15. me de Clichy: street running a little west of north from Trinity Church. See note 4, 18. Montmartre : a hill in north Paris, one of the highest élévations it) Paris, rising 420 feet above the river.

18. Monlin-Bongo : sitaated in Clichy boulevard, on the Place Blanche, It recel ves this name from its windmill, the arms of which are covered with red lights. The Moulin-Rouge is a celebrated place for ail kinds of variety entertainments and novelties, and contains caf/s, theater, outdoor gardens, and a noted dancing-hall.

21. me Lepic: a winding street on the east side of Montmartre. See note 15, above.

42, 7. "elntième": thus pronounced by the lower classes and the uneducated, for cinçuième,

10. Vinoennes: a town in the outskirts southeast of Paris, with its famous fortress and park. The château of Vincennes was founded in the I2th century, and was afterwards several times enlarged and strengthened. It has had various uses as factory, military school, armory, and artillery storehouse. Its donjon^ a massive square tower 170 ft. in height, was used from the middle of the fifteenth to the middle of the présent century as a State prison, in which many illustrions men were confined.

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