I. thalers ; a thaler = 3 marks =75 cents

15. pourri, etc., cf. Hamlet, 1,4: " Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."

13« — 10. donnez-vous la main, shake hands with one another, 30. Pardonnez-leur, etc. The words of the Saviour on the cross, Luke 23 : 34.

14. — 9. Failly, Pierre Louis Charles de, bom in 1810, served in the war against Austria, in Italy and in the Crimea. In the war of 1870 he had command of the 5th army corps. He remained idle at Bitsch during the battle of Wôrth, but covered the retreat of MacMahon. At Sedan his command was given to Wimpffen. He defended his course after the war in his book, La campagne de i8yo.