Sedan; see page 16, note

5. qui faisait monter la rougeur..., which for forty-seven years caused every Frenchnfan to blush,

6. PAisne {s is silent), is a French river flowing east to northwest through the Argonne and Champagne. The city of Soissons is on the Aisne. The banks of this river were the scene of much hard fighting in the summer of 191 8.

7. Saint-Quentin, a dty on the Somme, in the department of the Aisne. It was occupied for four years by the Germans.

8. Cambrai, a city on the river Escaut (the Scheldt) in the department of the Nord. The British army entered Cambrai in October, 1918.

9. £t cela finissait en apothéose, and the end of all that was a great triumph.

10. Abandonnée par les Bulgares . . . The successive surrender of Bulgaria, Turkey, Austro-Hungary and Germany took place between September and November of 1918.

11. Strasbourg, a city on the Rhine and the capital of Alsace. Stormed by the Germans in 1870, it has now been reunited to France.

Page 96. — i. Lille, an important industrial dty in the department of the Nord. Lost to France in 19 14, it was recovered in the autumn of 1918.

2. le roi Albert. Albert I, the gallant king of the Belgians, reentered Brussels, his capital, in November, 191 8, after an exile of four years.

3. l'enthousiasme tenait du délire, enthusiasm verged on frenzy,

4. PArc-de-PÉtoile, the triumphal arch of VÊtoUe in Paris, so called on account of the star-shaped square formed by the numerous avenues which converge there. It was erected by Napoleon I to commemorate his victories, and bears inscrip-

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tions with the names of Napoleon's generals. A famous piece of sculpture, the Marseillaise, by the French sculptor Rude, can be seen on the arch.

5. la place de la Concorde, a beautiful square in Paris, built in the i8th century. It is surrounded by statues representing the chief French cities. Among them is the statue of Strasbourg, from 1870 to 19 1 8 draped in mourning in order to express the grief of France for thé loss of the city.

6. Parmistice. On November 11, 1918, after fifty months of warfare, the last volley was fired on the western front in France. Germany sent delegates to Marshal Foch, the Allied Commander, and accepted all his conditions. The great war thus came to its end.

7. Le jour de gloire est arrivé, the glorious day has dawned. This is a quotation from the Marseillaise.

8. le fameux Rhin allemand, an allusion to the German song Die Wacht am Rhein (" The Watch on the Rhine "), expressing Germany's intention never to surrender the guard of the river on which, however, the Allied and American armies advanced in November, 191 8.

9. Aix-la-Chapelle, in German Aachen, an ancient city in Rhenish Prussia. It claims the possession of Charlemagne's grave.

10. Mayence, in German Mainz, in the former duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt, on the left bank of the Rhine. It was occupied by the French in December, 19 18.

11. Coblence, in German Koblenz, a city in Rhenish Prussia. It was occupied by the American army in December, 1918.

12. Cologne, in German Koln, the cathedral city on the Rhine. It was occupied by the British in December, 1918.

13. et le Kaiser, .... The German Kaiser, followed by his eldest son the Kronprinz, fled to Holland immediately after the armistice of November, 19 18.