les Tarquinsy the exiled kings of Rome

1. 456. Charle* Charles I. of England is meant. The s is dropped for the rh3rme.

1. 466. Cromwell, — sHl en est un, — n^est pas celui qui parle^ * the Cromwell — if a Cromwell there is — is not myself *— literally *he who is speaking.* The reproach of imitating Cromwell in seizing the suprême power was often raised against Robespierre, and finally, with justice, against Napoléon Bonaparte.