une sorte de chaîne sans fin, a kind of endless chain

3. Quant à la masse cuirassée des tanks, as for the massive armor-plated structure of the tanks.

Page 77. — i. Croix de Victoria, a British decoration for

conspicuous bravery.

2. Allan Seeger (1888-1916), a young American hero. A former Harvard student and a poet, Seeger made the cause of France his own and enlisted in the Foreign Legion. He was killed at Belloy-en-Santerre the very day of the celebration of the American Independence, July 4, 191 6, during the Somme offensive.

Page 79. — ' i. J*aî un rendez-vous avec la Mort, / have a rendezvous with death. This is one of Seeger's most pathetic poems.

Page 80. — I. n est tout à fait de la maison, he is really a member of the family.