Le colonel, beau jeune homme, bien ficelé, qui venait de succéder à Macon, fut sabré ; le chef de bataillon qui le remplaça dans le commandement, vieillard à cheveux blancs, fit faire halte au régiment.
The colonel, a handsome young man, well turned out, who had succeeded Macon, was sabred; the battalion commander who took his place, an old man with white hair, ordered the regiment to halt.