Nous asseoirons, * we will found

Mont-Sacré, referring to the sécession of the Plebs at Rome, when they threatened to establish a new city on the Mons Sacer, B.c. 494.

L 797. H me tarde de voir^ * I am im\)atieQt to scft.«'

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1. 804. tnon aïeul Corneille, Charlotte Corday was really descended in direct line (through females) from the great Corneille. Pierre Corneille was bom i6o6 at Rouen and died 1684 in Paris. He Is generally r^arded as the greatest tragic dramatist of France. In 1636 appeared his fine play Le Cid, His other most famous plays are Horace, Cinna, Polyeucte, La Mort de Pompée^ Rodogune, and Sertoritts,

1. 805. ' Ouif puisque autour de moiy dr*r.' This couplet is taken from Comeille*s Sertorius, Act m. Scène il. It is spoken by Sertorius to Pompey. In the original the first line reads: 'Et comme autour de moi &c.'