des supplices, *of exécution

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1. 1668. Septembrisons, a word formed from Septembre, and signifying to murder as in the September massacres.

So in English the murders done by Burke the body-snatcher gave ■rise to a verb *to burke,' which bas lemamed m \jfie.

L 1670. faubourg Poissonnière. One of the former suburbs of Paris, outsîde the line of the old walls, on the north.

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1. 1673. si vous m* en croyez, *if you*ll listen to me,* literally *if you believe me as to that {en)*

1. 1675. la lanterne. In the early dajrs of the Révolution persons obnoxious to the mob were hanged on a lamp-post.

1. 1677. Au club des Jacobins, Many deputies belonged to this dub, and Robespierre was its particular favourite.

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L 1684. un pur, *an honest man.* The term pur hère refers to Robespierre's incorruptible integrity.

1. 168S. mis comme un ci-devant» Robespierre was always very neat and particular in his dress.

1. 1687. en carmagnole, The Carmagnole was first the song and dance in vogue among the Revolutionary mob, and then the name was given to the workman's dress, jacket, wide trousers and red cap, which patriots came to wear. Marat affected disorder and squalor in his dress, but he really had not lost his taste for luxury.