Related Clues:

• Release by exploding — pardon
• Fired? Not punished at all
• Excuse for discharge
• Fire, or impose no punishment at all?
• Allowed to go, i.e. fired
• The foreign gent's chance to avoid trouble
• The French aristocrat not guillotined?
• Set free without charge
• Discharge (a firework)
• Allow to go free; discharge
• Excuse from responsibility
• Discharged the French dandy
• Free service not available
• Pardon the Parisian, a good sort
• Mercifully discharged