John Bull, Junior: or, French as She is Traduced
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I mean "modern history," for although public school-boys know little or nothing of Marlborough and Wellington, they could write volumes about Pericles, Scipio, and Hannibal. Ask them something about the Reform Bill, the Repeal of the Corn Laws, or the causes which led to American Independence, and you will have little essays worth inserting in a comic paper.
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Abbreviation of "bas-officier" (non-commissioned officer).
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I have always been doubtful whether these battles are properly related in histories published in England.
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Among the nominations in the Legion of Honor, published on the 14th of July, 1884, I noticed the name of the English master (an Englishman) in the lycée of Bordeaux.
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"Mons., a familiar and contemptuous abbreviation of Monsieur." – Littré, "Dictionnaire de la Langue Française."