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Louvet^ Pétion, Buzot and other Girondins enter and interrupt the converscUion, Louvet jokes Barbaroux about his supposed flirtaiion with Charlotte^ but asks her pardon for thejest, The troops of the Girondins are marching peut outside, Barbaroux hower>er pro-

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l62 CHARLOTTE CORDAY.

phesies defeat, Charlotte ts indignant that so many men should be needed to overthrow a villain like Marat, The other Girondins go oui to réview the troops.

h 1420. pour passer la revtie^ * to pass the troops in review.' 1. 1428. les amours de Faublas^ the licentious novel by which Louvet first gained notoriéty.

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Le général Wimpfen, Félix de Wimpfen or Wimpffen was boni at Zweibriicken and entered the French army in the Seven Years' War. He was deputed by the nobility of Caen and the neighbourhood to represent them in the States General of 1789. He took command of the Girondin forces at Caen in 1 793, Beaten at Vemon he escaped the Terror, rejoined the army, and died 181 4.

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la Marseillaise^ the revolutionary hymn, composed by Rouget de l'Isle, and so called from having been sung by the thousand Marseillais whom Barbaroux had brought to Paris.

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L 1460. Ils sont, This refers to the departments. The Girondins counted on 7a of them.

1. 1451. En paroles beaucoup^ en œuvres peu de chose, This was the defect of the Girondins, as well as of their supporters.

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