[1] We may perhaps be allowed to note that _Dixmude_ appeared in the
_Revue des Deux Mondes_, March 1 and 15, before any other study on the
subject.
[2] "When we passed through the streets of Ghent they were full of
people shouting, 'Long live the French!' I heard one person in the crowd
call out, 'Long live Jean Gouin!' He must have known them well." (Letter
of Fusilier F., of the island of Sein.) Le Gwenn, which has been
corrupted into Gouin, is a very common name in Brittany. [Compare the
current English nickname "Jack Tar."--TR.]