les Tchèques de Bohême, the Czechs of Bohemia

6. la Guerre de Trente Ans, the Thirty Years War (1618-1648), which ended with the treaty of Westphalia. It made of Bohemia a battlefield for religions and political strife, between German, Austrian, French, Danish, and Swedish armies.

7. 1* Orient-Express, the fast train frôm Paria to Cwk&Xax^Ivûsaîs^fc.

8. Avricourt, a town now in French Lorraine and at that time an international customhouse and frontier station on the railroad f rom Paris to Strassburg,

Page 73. 1. Stuttgart, the capital of the former German kingdom of Wiirtemberg.

2. des hommes toujours très sanglés, men always in tight helts and hvUons.