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Isotta – the brand-name of the car

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Aix-les-Bains – a resort city in southeastern France in Savoie department

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coo-coo = madness

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code duello = rules of a duel, duel code

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forty-fives = forty-five caliber revolvers

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the Odeon – drama and comedy theatre in Paris, built in 1789

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Juan les Pins – a resort town on the French Riviera

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Pardon, Messieurs, Voulez-vous régler mes honorairies? Naturellement c’est pour soins médicaux seulement. M. Barban n’a qu’un billet de mille et ne peut pas les régler et l’autre a laissé son porte-monnaie chez lui. = Excuse me, gentlemen. I would like to receive my fee, for medical assistance only. Mr. Barban failed to pay me as he has got only a thousand-frank bill. And the other gentleman has left his purse at home. (French)

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Combien? = How much? (French)

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West Point – the United States Military Academy, higher educational institution for commissioned officers for the American Army, founded in 1802

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Corps des Pages = Page Corps (French), a privileged military educational institution in Paris

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Mayfair party – here: a high-society party in Hollywood; Mayfair is a fashionable and expensive shopping district in central London.

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coup de grâce – a final blow that kills a wounded person (French); an event or action that becomes the culmination of a bad situation.

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President Tyler – John Tyler (1790–1862), the 10 ^th American president

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Rue des Saintes Anges = Saint Anges Street (French)

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99oF = 37.2 °C;

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103oF = 39.5 °C.

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Hermes – an expensive and fashionable Paris store

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Five-and-Tens = five-and-ten-cents store – a cheap department store in the USA

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Beaumont Hamel…, the tragic hill of Thiepval… – the places east of Amiens where military operations of the joint British-French forces against the German army were held in 1916

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Marne – here: the Battle of the Marne in 1914, during World War I, between the British-French forces on the one side, and the invading German troops on the other

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the Crown Prince – here: Francis Ferdinand, archduke of Austria, killed in August 1914 in Sarajevo; his assassination became the formal cause of World War I.

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Valence – a town in southeastern France, on the left bank of the Rhone River

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Unter den Linden – avenue in Berlin, running from the Brandenburg Gate

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the Derby – one of the English annual horse races, run since 1661

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Undine – a romantic story by Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte (1777–1843); Undine is a mythical character, a water nymph who fell in love with a man.

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Wurtemburg – historic German states

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Westphalia – historic German states

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D. H. Lawrence (1885—1930) – English writer, the author of novels, plays, poems, short stories, etc.

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The silver cord is cut and the golden bowl is broken – a line from the Bible (Ecclesiastes 12:6)

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Newfoundland dead – Canadian soldiers from Newfoundland, a province of Canada, killed during World War I

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Amiens – a city in northern France, the place where the German troops were stopped in 1914