je pus lui avoir, ' I was able to procure for him

30 le faisant boire, *helpinghim to drink.'

67. 7 " Je crois bien que, etc. , ' I should think she did understand it. ' 13 — la porte Maillot. One of the western gâtes of Paris, about a

mile distant from the Arc de Triomphe. There was heavy cannonading at this point during the siège,

16 - Invalides. Hospital for old soldier^ in Paris. The fuU title is ' Hôtel des Invalides.'

i8-rBuzenval. On the içth of January, 1871, the gardes nationaux (volunteers of Paris) and other troops in Paris made a sortie, attacking the Germans in the neighborhood of Buzenval, a village lying about midway betwéen Paris and St. Germain. After some severe fighting they were forced to retire without gaining any advantage over the Germans.

19— avenue de la G-rande-Armée. The street which leads

from the Arc de Triomphe to the Porte Maillot.

20— qu'est-ce que c'est donc que ces troupes-là ?, ' what

troops are those then ?' Note carefuUy this periphrastic construction, so common in French.

24— il n'en fut pas autre chose, ' that was ail there was about it.'

68. 7— Lutzen. A town of Prussian Saxony, where the French army de-

feated the allied armies of Russia and Prussia on the 2nd of May, 14— Tuileries. A royal palace in Paris, situated to the east of the Arc de Triomphe. It was destroyed by the Communists not long after the period of our story, with the exception of thb wings which connccted it with the Louvre. .

17 — Milliaud. A distinguished cavalry officer under Napoléon ; bom

1766, died 1833.

" —je me demande encore, freely, ' î do not know till this day,' ' I still wondcr.'.

2q8 FRENCH READER.

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