Rocreuse. The local names in this story are imaginary

Pagre 46* — x. C'est comme un fond de parterre, etc., *'/ is like a low-lying garden, between the two wooded hills, but a natural garden, where the meadows are the lawns % and where the giant trees form the colossal Jlower-beds.

Pagre 50. — 1. Il aurait eu, etc., it would not hâve surprised the cld women, even if he had associated with the wo/ves in the ruins of Cagny.

Pagre 52. — i. l'empereur, Napoléon III, who declared war against Prussia, July 15, 1870.