Note 14 — PART TWO CERTAIN INTERIORS (continued 2)

It should be remembered that the military description of “tactics” is the direction of troops when in contact with the enemy. “Strategy” includes the direction of all movements that take place outside the immediate firing line. The conversion of neutral nations into allies or the cementing of bonds between allies by literary manifestations is specifically and according to the textbooks a branch of strategy, so that Gringoire is using the correct military word.