la raison d'État, ' statesmanship

1. 882. Dumouriez, Charles-François Duperrier Dumouriez was bom at Cambray 1739, and served in the French army in the Seven Years* War. He was sent to help the Pôles against the Russians before the Partition of Poland, and was imprisoned for exceeding his brders as an agent of the secret diplomacy of Louis XV. He took •^-a.x^. >*î>^c^ "^^

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Girondins^ and was made Foreign Minister in March 1792» but resigned soon after. He failed in 1792 to enter Belgium, but was able to stop the Prossian invasion at Valmy in Sept. 1792 and compel the Dake of Brunswick to retreat. He tumed on Belgium and overran it, after a victory at Jemmappes. He then retumed to Paris to scheme for political supremacy. But next year (Mar. 1793) he was defeated at Neerwinden by the Austrians ; and having lost his crédit at home, he went over to the Austrians, but was unable to carry his army with him. He died in England, 1823.

L 884. y*en sais un^ *I know of one' — ^literally *I know of one of them.* Hère the en is redundant, referring to triumvirs,

1. 387. J^enjure^ *I call to witness to it,* or *I attest it by.'

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L 395. P émeute, literally, *the riot,' hère put for *the notons mob.'

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