et les rumeurs de courir, historical infinitive

22. Kléber, Jean Baptiste. French gênerai, bom 1753 in Strasburg. He fought in the Vendée, and followed Napoléon to Egypt, where he was murdered by the Mussulmans in Cairo, Jane 14, 1800.

26. Chanoine Schmid, Christophe von, writer of children's books (1 768-1 854).

lOO, — 7. terrines de foie gras, famous patties made of gooselivers.

"•Ol. — 21. à pleine artère, in great spirt^.

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102. — 14. Sedan, city in the department of Ardennes, on the right bank of the Meuse, 10 k^. from the Belgian frontier. Famous for the battle fought there Sept, i, 1870, in which the French army capitulated and the Emperor Napoléon III was made prisoner.

27. Élan de '92. The year 1792 was marked by the first meeting of the National Convention which. abolished the monarchy and established the Republic. It was a period of intense enthusiasm, which was heightened by the battle of Valmy, in which Dumouriez and Kellermann defeated the Prussians. It was also in 1792 that Rouget de risle composed the famous "Marseillaise." For many years after this the French armies were invincible.

104. — 8. solidaire, answerabU. It was really Napoléon who declared war on Prussia.

9. Guillaume, William I, Emperor of Germany; then king of Prussia.