voiture de place, public cab.
Lambert. Curiously enough, the three Lamberts known to the history of this time were all émigrés, and one of them a Russian general during the invasion of France. The name is therefore somewhat unfortunately chosen.
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décoration, i.e., the Cross of the Legion of Honor, founded by Napoleon I., and since always regarded as the highest of such distinctions in France. The cross is not usually worn, but in its place a bit of red ribbon in the buttonhole.