Crossword-Solution: SERS 4 letters, 57 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

Sers, a third member of this commission, was, before the Revolution, a bankrupt merchant at Bordeaux, but in 1791 was a municipal officer of the same city, and sent as a deputy to the National Assembly, where he attempted to rise from the clouds that encompassed his heavy genius by a motion for pulling down all the statues of Kings all over France.

Sers has just cunning enough to be taken for a man of sense when with fools; when with men of sense, he reassumes the place allotted him by Nature.

Ainsinc Nature i soutiva: SachiÈs que nul a droit n'i va, Ne n'a pas entencion droite, Qui sans plus dÈlit y convoite; Car cil qui va dÈlit querant, SÈs-tu qu'il se fait? il se rent Comme sers et chÈtis et nices, Au prince de tretous les vices; Car c'est de tous maus la racine, Si cum Tulles le dÈtermine O˘ livre qu'il fist de Viellesce, Qu'il loe et vant plus que Jonesce.

Que la Fortune ne t'abatte Combien qu'elle t'assaille et batte; Mais comme eux fais exactement, Ne me sers jamais autrement.

About one-fifth of that number was armed with rifles (chiefly Maüsers), the remainder carrying bowie-knives and bamboo lances.