FOOTNOTES:
[6] Military hats.
[7] Badinguet, nickname given to Napoleon III; Henri Rochefort, anti-Napoleon journalist and agitator.
[8] A suburb of Chalons.
[9] Canrobert, a brave and distinguished veteran, head of the Sixth Corps of the Army of the Rhine.
[10] Panier seats used in the French army to transport the wounded.
[11] Tringlots are the soldiers detailed for this duty.
[12] Brandy of thirty-six degrees.
[13] Armed police.
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