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Voltigeur   Listen
noun
Voltigeur  n.  
1.
A tumbler; a leaper or vaulter.
2.
(Mil.) One of a picked company of irregular riflemen in each regiment of the French infantry.






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"Voltigeur" Quotes from Famous Books



... times driven back; also at the corner of the Rue St. Denis and the Rue de Tracy. In the Rue Philippeaux a ball passed through the face of a soldier of the 21st of the Line infantry, and then through the head of a voltigeur behind him. Sixteen soldiers fell in the attack on the barricade of the Rue Rambuteau. A blouse pointed a pistol at an officer of the Municipal Guard; the pistol hung fire, and the officer passed his sword through ...
— Edmond Dantes • Edmund Flagg



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