Encore fallait-H voir, for il fallait voir

Page 62. — i. puisque vous y êtes, since you are at it.

2. Encore on lui propose; compare for construction with encore fallait-il voir, page 51, note 3. Note the different meanings of encore which explain the difference in construction.

Page 66. — i. Domremy, a village in the Meuse valley near Neuf château (Vosges). There Joan of Arc was born in 141 2.

2. Lorraine, the French province wrested from France by Germany in 187 1. It was united to France in 1766 and was reconquered in 19 18.

3. la Meuse, a river which gives its name to a French department. The Meuse, along a course of some 500 miles, flows through northern France, Belgium and Holland. At Verdun, Sedan, Liège, Namur and also during the American advance in the autumn of 191 8 much fighting took place on its banks.

4. Vaucouleurs, a town near Domremy. The governor of Vaucouleurs sent Joan of Arc on her mission to Charles VII, then dauphin of France, at Chinon.

5. Chinon, a town in Touraine, on the river Vienne, with a castle, at one time the residence of Charles VII whom Joan of Arc met in that city in 1429.

6. Pathay; there, in 1429, Joan of Arc defeated the English who were besieging the city of Orléans.

7. Compiègne, a town in the department of Oise with a palace where the President of the French Republic sometimes resides. Fighting took place several times near Compiègne during the war,' especially in the summer of 191 8. It was the scene of the first meeting between Marshal Foch and the German armistice delegates in November, 19 18. At Compiègne Joan of Arc, betrayed by her own people, was caught by the soldiers of the duke of Burgundy and sold to the English. Joan was burned at the stake in Rouen on May 30, 143 1.

Page 67. — i. la Marche Lorraine,^ French military anthem. Page 58. — i. la vie est la vie, such is life.

Page 69. — i^ les enfants sont sages comme des images,

the children are as good as angels.

Page 60. — I. Verdun, the famous dty on the Meuse. In the last days of February, 191 6, the Germans launched a powerful attack on the fortress. After many critical turns, and though the Germans had already taken two of the most important forts, namely Douaumont and Vaux, the French army under Pétain succeeded in holding its own and in finally throwing back the enemy. Douaumont was recaptured in October, 19 16, and Vaux in November of the same year. Meanwhile the French and the British had begun a victorious offensive on the Somme in the first days of July.

2. les Hauts-de-Meuse, the heights of Meuse, a range of hills along the Meuse river.

3. Fleury, Thavanne, two other forts of Verdun near Douaumont, northeast of the city.

j 4. le général S . . ., probably General Sarrail, military governor of Verdun in 19 14-19 15. General Sarrail contributed to the Marne victory by his stand at Verdun in September, 19 14. Later on he commanded for some time the Allied armies in Macedonia.

5. le Grand Couronné, a crown or circle of hills around Nancy in Lorraine. There the Germans were brought to a standstill in September, 1914.

Page 61. — I. je n'ai pas manqué • • • à la française, I did

not fail to make my finest French salute,