cet essai terrible^ * this terrible ordeal

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L 262. aux mains d*un dictateur^ thèse words may be represented as a prophecy either of Robespierre*s or of Napoleon's supremacy.

1. 267. au seuil démocratique, 'on the threshold of the democracy.'

L 270. Xercès, Vergniaud refers to the well-known story of Xerxes scourging and chaining the Hellespont.