Namur. Town of Belgium

4. l’archiduc. Leopold William of Austria, brother of the emperor, Ferdinand III.

5. lieu tiers, neutral ground. What is meant is that Conde would not meet the Archduke either in the latter’s quarters or his own, but in a third place which belonged to neither.

б. due d’Enghien. Conde’s eldest son, bom in 1643. Conde had succeeded to his title of Prince of Conde through the death of his own father in 1646. See page 163, note 6.

Page 171 .— 1. dominait, was the ruler , had authority.

а. au roi d’Angleterre. Charles II.

3. au due d’Yorck. James II of England, Charles’s younger brother, who succeeded him in 1685 and was deposed in 1688.

4. et il apprit, etc. Saint-Simon relates in his Memoires that Conde rebuked Don Juan, bastard of Spain and governor of the Netherlands, for his disrespectful treatment of the exiled Charles by inviting him and Charles to dinner and having the table laid for Charles alone, Conde serving.

5. traits des PyrSnSes. Between France and Spain, in 1659. Spain threatened, if Conde was not pardoned by Louis, to present him with territory in Flanders. See page 1 73, note $;

б. C&mbr&i. Town in the department of the Nord.

7. le passage du Rhin. In the campaign of 1672 against the Dutch, the French troops led by Louis XIV in person forded a branch of the Rhine near Aerdt, with very slight resistance on the part of the enemy. But this insignificant affair was for various reasons regarded as a wonder by the French, and was immortalized in poetry, sculpture and painting.

Page 172 . — 1. Senef. Seneffe in southern Belgium. Drawn battle between Conde and William of Orange in 1674. See page 176, lines 7-20.

2. rien ne manquer&it, etc. The young duke, as a matter of fact, showed no aptitude for military art.