48 of the German Translation (Leipzig, 1774), our usual reference.

Voltaire, endlessly informed upon details this time, is equally express: "MILORD CHARLES HAY, CAPITAINE AUX GARDES ANGLAISES, CRIA: 'MESSIEURS DES GARDES FRANCAISES, TIREZ!' To which Count d'Auteroche with a loud voice answered" &c.

(_OEuvres,_ vol.xxviii.
p.

155.) See also _Souvenirs du Marquis de Valfons_ (edited by a Grand-Nephew, Paris, 1860), p.

151;--a poor, considerably noisy and unclean little Book; which proves unexpectedly worth looking at, in regard to some of those poor Battles and personages and occurrences: the Bohemian Belleisle-Broglio part, to my regret, if to no other person's, has been omitted, as extinct, or undecipherable by the Grand-Nephew.] After YOU, Sirs! Is not this a bit of modern chivalry?
A supreme politeness in that sniffing pococurante kind; probably the highest point (or lowest) it ever went to.