g. à outrance ; see note on page i, line

1. 32. dédouble, opens up, so as to make a single line ont of two.

Page 78.-^1. 14. miracle. The omission of the article after c'était is unusual.

Page 79. — 1. n. major général, chief of staff {^ovi\\)\ see note on page 28, line 12.

Page 80. — 1. 5. 456; see note on page 44, line 27.

Page 81 . — 1. 13. de vive voix, verbally ; viva voce.

1. 19. Laon (pron. lan) is about eighty-seven miles north-east of Paris.

Page 82. — 1. i. souverain en fait d'appellations, suprême in the viatter of liâmes.

1. 3. se dégageant de toute prévention, laying aside ill pryudice.

1. 28. Salamanca et Vittoria are in Spain ; Dennewitz, Leipzig and Kulm are in Germany. In ail of thèse battles the French were defeated. Since ail of thèse defeats had occurred within the last Ihree years, the commanders seem to hâve lost confidence in theniselves and in Napoléon.

Page 83. — 1. 4. fait, hère the same as faute, line i, page 83; lit., deed, or doing.

1. 18. fièvre de l'hésitation does not seem to be a happy expression, because " f ever " in its figurative sensé can only mean excessive zeal, never the lack of it.

1. 26. \m\.jfault. It does not seem at ail probable that Grouchy with 30,000 men could hâve checked Bliicher with three times that niimber.

1. 33. un service politique. Grouchy had assisted Napoléon in reorganizing his army.

Page 84. — 1. 4. Vendée, a district in western France whose inhabitants were warmly attached to the Bourbons and, consequently, resisted Napoléon.