[ 2.] seulement ... je, it was only ... that I.
[ 3.] Que voulez-vous, what else could you expect; cf. also page 33, note 2.
Page 46.
[ 1.] Boeuf-Rouge... Cruchon d'Or, Red Ox... Golden Pitcher, names of taverns, so called from their signs.
Page 47.
[ 1.] du moment que, if.
[ 2.] s'est livrée, was fought.
Page 48.
[ 1.] pour deux liards, two cents' worth; strictly half a cent's worth, as the liard was worth about one fourth of a cent.
[ 2.] Brunswick, the Duke of Brunswick, a Prussian, commander-in-chief of the allied Austrian and Prussian forces.
Page 49.
[ 1.] Champagne, this was formerly the name of a district in France lying east of Paris and a little to the south.
[ 2.] proclamations, for example, "A proclamation to the French, issued by Brunswick, assumed to speak to them in the name of their own legitimate government, threatened to destroy every city which should resist, and to chastise Paris in a way to be remembered forever, if a hair of the king's head was harmed. These empty threats had no effect but to serve as texts by which French patriotic orators stirred the people to fury in their resistance." Lewis, History of Germany, page 553. See Introduction, § 9.
[ 3.] la baïonnette dans les reins, with a bayonet through him: meaning that his army had been badly defeated.