Cantonnement: cantonment; quarters.
Centime: monetary value, about one-fifth of a cent. The smallest coin used is the five centime piece.
Chasseur (Alpin): a soldier belonging to a famous French corps.
Château: a country mansion, formerly the word meant castle.
Chef: chief.
Cognac: a kind of brandy.
Couchés: stretcher cases. Literally, men so badly wounded as to have to be carried lying down.
Confiture: jam, or sweets.
Coup de main: trench raid.
Croix de Guerre: the War Cross, a French decoration.
Departé: one of our own shells, on its way to the enemy.
Douille: a brass shell case.
Douze: Twelve.
Drapeau: a flag.
Eau-de-Vie: whiskey.
Éclat: fragments of shells or grenades; shell splinters.
Encore des blessés: still more wounded!
Epicerie: grocery store.
Evacuation: transporting wounded to the rear; simply, moving of wounded.
Essence: gasoline.
Fatigue cap: pointed cloth cap worn by French.
Feuille: the opposite of a marraine. The man with whom the girl corresponds.
Fil-de-fer: barbed-wire.
