sera = viendra

б. le due d’Enghien. The title of the eldest son in the Conde family.

Rage 164 . — x. les vieillards experiments. Reference to the generals who advised against attacking the enemy before Rocroi.

2. Rocroy, Rocroi . Town in the Ardennes department, where Conde won a victory over the Spaniards in 1643. Notice the remarkable description which follows. Mile de Scudery had also described Rocroi in le Grand Cyrus.

3. Don Francisco de Mellos (1611-1665). Governor of the Spanish Netherlands and commanding a division at Rocroi.

4. cet autre Alexandre. Alexander is said to have slept soundly the night before Arbela (331 B. C.), where he defeated Darius.

5. dtonner, strike like a thunderbolt.' The older, root meaning.

6. Restait cette redoutable infanterie. Here begins one of the finest oratorical passages in literature.

Page 165 . — x. Fontaines. Pedro, count de Fuent&s (1560- 1643), Spanish general of French origin.

2. Bek. Johann, baron von Beck (1588-1648), a distinguished general in the Spanish service and governor of Luxemburg. See page 179, lines 2-4.