ReE AGE

Tue following stories and sketches by
Alphonse Daudet have been selected
for translation from the volume en-
titled Lettres de mon Moulin and
from the Contes du Lundi. To the
latter belong all the incidents relating
to the Franco-German War, 1870-71,
which illustrate the sacrifice of the
brave French army in that disastrous
campaign, through the vacillations and
vainglorious incompetence of their
commanders, under the misrule of the
tottering Napoleonic dynasty.

When in the last stage of the war,
valiant Paris refused the humiliating