une Tarentaise, woman of Tarentum, in South Italy.
Gaëte, English Gaeta, a bay and town on the west coast of Italy, north of Naples.
L. 47. The historical allusion here is not clear. Prince Eugene of Savoy, Marlborough's colleague, and Cardinal Mazarin were not contemporaries.
Livourne, Leghorn. Spinola: the reference may or may not be to the famous Imperialist general in the Thirty Years War.
prames, big flat-bottomed boats, capable of carrying cannon, and used for coast defence.
Notre-Dame de la Garde, a sanctuary at Marseilles.
Palma, a town in Majorca.
APRÈS LA BATAILLE.
Victor Hugo's father was an officer in the army of the great Napoleon and fought in Spain as a general, but nothing is known of this incident except what is here told.
Caramba (Spanish), a colloquial interjection, implying surprise and astonishment.