FOOTNOTES
[1] Oriental Proverb.—“Hold out your skirts when heaven is raining gold.”
[2] The word, used thus, means simply “mansion.”
[3] “Bitche, of which place I had received such accounts, as left scarce a doubt of death being preferable.” Quoted from Major-General Lord Blayney, Prisoner of War at Verdun, from 1810-1814.
[4] The Commandant of Verdun had power, as he willed, to transfer détenus and prisoners of war from one dépôt to another.
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