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 1     I,       I|         to the guide she spoke French; the negro she questioned
 2     I,     III|       cortège had been German, French, Italian, and English, speaking
 3     I,      IV|   coming toward me, he said in French, "Oh, sir! you do not mean
 4     I,      IV|       quite a number of them - French, English, Italian, and one
 5     I,      IV|        looked into every one - French, German, English, and Italian,
 6     I,      IV|        frescoes, betraying the French school of art in the delicate
 7     I,      IV|     pictures. Here I keep only French and German pictures of lesser
 8     I,       V|    said, in fluent and precise French, although with a somewhat
 9     I,      VI|       the two Governments, the French and the Swiss, for distribution
10     I,      VI|        you or I. If she speaks French, she only imitates our ladies
11     I,      VI|    refined when they speak bad French instead of good Hungarian."~ ~
12     I,      XI|        he substituted for it a French, English, Spanish, Italian,
13     I,    XIII|        bound to understand her French prattle. So there I stood,
14    II,       I|    embête!"~ ~To her she spoke French; to me, German. The girl
15    II,     VII|       them "Milady," and spoke French to them, although it was
16    II,     VII|       stuffed her pockets with French candies and confectionery
17    II,      XI|       an army physician to the French Government, and they have
18    II,      XI|       with the whole amount in French Government bonds for a fall.~ ~"
19    II,      XI|     giving you a few data. All French securities are rising in
20    II,      XI|    open to the Government. The French military force is fully
21    II,      XI| thousand that on August 15 the French will march into Berlin."~ ~"
22    II,      XI|     joined the regiment of the French army in which I had enlisted
23    II,     XII|       presence of his masters. French surgery in general occupies
24    II,     XII|     occupies a foremost place. French camp-surgeons have acquired
25    II,     XII|     practice in many wars. The French had invariably been victors
26    II,     XII|        retreated, and then the French had taken up the wounded
27    II,     XII|       time could come when the French would be driven from the
28    II,     XII|   repulsed, and the victorious French gathered up the wounded.~ ~
29    II,     XII| galloped into the heart of the French camp in broad daylight;
30    II,     XII|        etc., until at last the French awoke from their illusion,
31    II,     XII|  cutting their way through the French lines, killing two French
32    II,     XII|      French lines, killing two French officers, one of whom, as
33    II,     XII|    regarded as a bad omen. The French were so confident, so presumptuous,
34    II,     XII|      This was the fault of the French, who ought to have attacked
35    II,     XII|        attacked by them.~ ~The French fought heroically against
36    II,     XII|        grating sounds from the French mitrailleuses, in particular,
37    II,     XII|        of the wounded. But the French mitrailleuses had found
38    II,     XII|       sent to them, but to the French artillery, which was opposing
39    II,     XII|        of their faces, and the French infantry were hidden in
40    II,     XII|      towards us; a regiment of French chasseurs on horseback,
41    II,     XII|       dust in the faces of the French, the backs of the Germans.
42    II,     XII|      made a fearful gap in the French horsemen, but still they
43    II,     XII|        before the lines of the French chasseurs. We thought this
44    II,     XII|  retreat meant victory for the French, but we discovered that
45    II,     XII|  command, this "En avant!" The French chasseurs had pursued the
46    II,    XIII|   disaster, the retreat of the French troops was accomplished
47    II,    XIII|   Zouaves and Turcos, not real French soldiers.~ ~That we had
48    II,    XIII|    force was stronger than the French, and it turned out that
49    II,    XIII|      of artillery. A couple of French and a couple of German pieces
50    II,    XIII|   pieces were in position. The French were quickly disabled by
51    II,    XIII|      my features. "You are not French?" he asked.~ ~"I am a Hungarian,"
52    II,    XIII|  Hecuba - that is, for wounded French soldiers?"~ ~The old man
53    II,    XIII|   captures in the hands of the French! Commander Moltke a prisoner!
54    II,     XIV|    sharper in consequence. The French are beaten everywhere, and
55    II,      XV| Hungarians, and friends to the French. Look at my husband! He
56    II,      XV|        where he has served the French army. He has repeatedly
57    II,      XV|      following words: -~ ~"The French will be victorious; invest
58    II,      XV|      so much confidence in the French cause as to stake his whole
59    II,      XV|       are a true friend of the French, let me give you a bit of
60    II,     XVI|     ended in a triumph for the French.~ ~Another telegram came
61    II,     XVI|      had ended fatally for the French, who had been forced to
62    II,     XVI|       Chapelle. Three thousand French soldiers, with five hundred
63    II,     XVI|      the Prussian King."~ ~The French gentleman had fallen from
64    II,     XVI|        and what a rise! If the French had simply been vanquished
65    II,     XVI|        I read - "General rise! French values mounting and greatly
66    II,     XVI|          You are home from the French camp. Evidently you have
67    II,     XVI|     the war was at an end. The French have no organised armies
68    II,     XVI|        of peace, and forces up French securities. What shall I
69    II,     XVI| appeared that manifesto of the French Republican Government which
70    II,    XVII|        of the positions of the French forces. Others say that
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