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 1 I     |   point-blank firing, the English, French, and Prussians have nothing
 2 I     | transatlantic power? Shall not the French sink one of our steamers,
 3 II    |          the ‘Ass’s Bridge’ by the French. ‘Every intelligent being,’
 4 III   |         word “impossible” in not a French one. People have evidently
 5 III   |        procession. Irish, Germans, French, Scotch, all the heterogeneous
 6 IX    |           in 1832, by Braconnot, a French chemist, who called it xyloidine.
 7 XII   |     ignorance. But as formerly the French paid before singing, so
 8 XIX   |          they were in favor of the French hero, were slightly staggered
 9 XX    |         important fact. A skillful French astronomer, M. Laussedat,
10 XXI   |        allow me to treat you after French fashion. Let us be off to
11 XXVIII|            exactly 86,410 leagues (French), or 238,833 miles mean
12 II    |    American.”~[1] This is a purely French habit.~This affair settled,
13 II    |       noticing disturbances that a French astronomer, M. Petit, was
14 II    |             More than two thousand French leagues,” exclaimed Michel
15 III   |           falsest of voices an old French refrain to enliven the situation.~
16 III   |           microcosm he represented French loquacity and excitability,
17 V     |    calculations of Fourier, of the French Academy of Science, it is
18 VII   |         meat. Some glasses of good French wine crowned the repast,
19 Not   |            the text. However, if a French >speaker can find a French
20 Not   |         French >speaker can find a French edition, it might be nice
21 Not   |            3 miles, but don’t know French usage in 1865. >page 125
22 Not   |            perigee 86,410 leagues (French), or 238,833 miles <mean> >