une voix pure, *sl sweet voîce

I. 692. tant d'imigris, The royalists who left France were known as émigrés, Normandy would be on their Way when escaping to the Channel Islands or to England.

1. 699. Marat triomphe, Marat is always brought forward most prominently, to account for Charlotte thinking him the chief of the Jacobins.

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1. 699. La Gironde^ ' the Girondin party,* the name of the department put for the party whose leaders came from that locality. L 606. r heure ne sied pas ^, ' the hour is not suitable for.* 1. 608. qui vous dirige, * to guide you.' The subjunctive is used with the relative to dénote a purpose. See note on 1. 324, also Eve,

L 609. dussé'je vous sitivre, 'though I should hâve to follow you.'

The conditional sentence is put without a conjunction, as in English we

might say *Had I to follow you,' or *Were I to follow you.' See Eve^

1. 620. quel soutien, . . Que les flottantes voix, * what support. . .are the waverîng voices.' Que hère is pleonastic to introduce the real subject of sont (understood), and is not connected with çuel. For a similar use of que, see Eve, § 6g.

1. 623. d'apparentes mesures, 'specious measures/ measures for appearance only.

1. 681. le tmUre, Pache, who was for a short time Minister of War in 1792, and was chosen Mayor of Paris in 1793, in which capacity he helped to overthrow the Girondins. After the fall of Robespierre he retired from public life. He died in 1823.

le ministre. Garât, successor to Roland as Minister of the Interior, after having succeeded Danton as Minister of Justice. He was a weak time-seryer, whose importance was merely accidentai. He died in

1. 637. la générale, * the alarm.' Battre la générale is a military

term for the drum-beat calling the troops together.

le tocsin, 'the alarm-bell.' The dérivation is from the Gascon toquer, a form of toucher, to touch or strike, and sing from the Latin signum a sign or signal, used for a bell.

U. 689 — 642. See note on 1. 222.

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1. 663. de par VassassincU, an allusion to the old formula 'de par le roi.' We may translate, perhaps, *By order of King Murder.* Par hère was originally written/ar/, so de par = de la part de.