Quitte pour la peur, / got ojf with a good fright

7. la médaille militaire, a decoration for bravery worn on a yellow and green ribbon.

Page 13. — I. Les autobus parisiens; in the night of September 7, 1 9 14, in order rapidly to outflank the German right wing, General Galliéni, then military governor of Paris, requisitioned iioo Parisian motorbuses to take his soldiers to the front. The taads made the journey twice during the night and effected a quick concentration of the troops.

2. Clichy-Odéon, Madeleine-Bastille, Batignolles-Montparnasse, all well known quarters of Paris, the names of which François used to see inscribed on the buses.

• 3. von Kluck, one of the German generals defeated at the Mame. He commanded the German army on the left of the French.

4. ce fameux général romain, an allusion to the '^ I came, I saw, I conquered " of Julius Caesar.

Page 14. — I. Aux autobus ... la Patrie reconnaissante.

François remembers the famous inscription on the walls of the Panthéon in Paris: a Aux grands hommes la Pairie reconnaissante.Ti

Page 15. — I. Franchet d'Esperey commanded an army on the Mame. In October, 1918, he led the victorious advance of the Salonica army against the Bulgars.