un boston. See note to p. 39 — Stage directions

ces fleurs. Hère Ponsard perhaps overdoes the domestic virtues of Charlotte Corday. One hardly expects a heroine to be noted for her skill in making wax or paper âowers.

L 966. Tu n'es peu à ton jeu, * you are not attending to the game.'

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X 958, avinés, 'drunken.'

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L 966. Catilina, used to typify Marat and his faction.

L 966. Cicéron^ the représentative of éloquence and patriotism, stands for the Girondins.

1. 970. qi^o:i peut tout oser, literally *that men can dare everything' — ^i.e. *that men may dare to commit every crime.'

L 972. Tant que Marat znvra, * so long as Marat lives.' As the verb of the principal sentence {que ehacun tremble) refers io future time, the verb of the temporal sentence is also put in the future. Tant que sometimes takes the indicative, as hère, sometimes the subjunctive. See Eve, §§ 177, 263, 264.