chef de bureau, head clerk

lO. — 12. le vin est tiré, il faut le boire. Proverb : " The die is cast, there is no backing out.^'

20. Benedetti, Vincent, Comte de, a French diplomat, ambassador to Prussia at the outbreak of the war of 1870. On July 13 he had an interview with King William of Prussia at Ems, demanding that the latter would never allow the candidacy of a HohenzoUem to the throne of Spain. The king refused with dignity to comply with such an insulting demand, left £ms at once for Berlin, there to prépare for the war, which France evidently sought, and which she declared soon itf< ter. — Furth = fort, avtay with ym,

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37. panneau : tomber or donner dans U panneau = fall into the snare.