THE SIEGE OF BERLIN (FROM DAUDET'S CONTES DU LUNDI

61. 5-10— l'avenue des Champs-Elysées. A beautifui wide street

leading from the Champs-Elysées to the rond-point de l'étoile, a circular//a<:^, in the western part of Paris, from which streets radiatt; in ail directions hence the name l'Etoile — and in the centre of which stands the colossal Arc de Triomphe (160 ft. high) erected to commemorate the victories of Napoléon l. 14 — mois d'août, etc. War was declared between France and Germany on July i5th, 1870. Wissembourg was fought August 4th ; Reichshoffen, August 6th ; capitulation of Sedan and surrender of McMahon's army, Sept. 2nd. Treaty of peace, ceding part of Alsace and Lorraine, signed Feb. 27th, 1871. Paris eritered by the German army, March 3rd following.

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61. 17 -vieil entêté de, 'an old stickler for glory and patriotism,' In

the French vieil is the adj. and entêté the noun.

i8~Ohanips-Elysées. The name is applied thus to the street as well as to the gard'.-ns which are more than a mile distant from where the colonel's house is supposed to be situated.

26-il devait être très ffrand, 'he must hâve been very tall,' =?7 aurait dû être. See note to 1. 5, p. 38.