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It was a curious spectacle, the return of those braves for whom Parisian slang had invented the new and significant expression of _franc-fileur_.
They were not so proud then as they have been since. Feeling rather embarrassed in the midst of a population still quivering with the emotions of the siege, they had at least the good taste to try and find pretexts for their absence.