le fut = fut soigné

37, 26. la Marseillaise: the French national anthem, composed in April, 1792, by Rouget de Lisle (also spelled l’Isle; do not sound the s) at Strassburg (Alsace) when France was about to be attacked by Austro-Prussian armies. Named by its author

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“ Chant de guerre de l’armée du Rhin,” it was called later “ la Marseillaise ’ ’ because it was popularized through France by volunteers from Marseilles.

38, 10. Tout le monde descend: This expression corresponds to the English, AU out.

13. des tirailleurs et des zouaves: Tirailleurs algériens (Algerian sharpshooters) and zouaves are infantry troops garrisoning Algeria and Tunis, and are famous, like the Foreign Légion, for their reckless bravery.