perspective, 'prospect
L 2006. César... soutient &'c. Julius Caesar is said to hâve urged thèse views as a reason for sparing the lives of the accomplices of Catiline.
L 2008. Socrate, Robespierre refers hère to Plato*s dialogue of PkaedOi in which Socrates before his death is supposed to set forth his views on the immortality of the soûl.
L 2016. ye boirai. . .la coupe de Socrate. Robespierre was fond of this classical allusion. He declared in the Jacobin Club, just before his overthrow in Thermidor (July) 1794, Je vais boire la ciguë!
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L 2020. cafard, * a hypocrite. * The dérivation of the word is doubtful; Du Cange traces it to caphardum or chabbardum^ an article of University garb in the Middle Ages — perhaps akin to chape^ a cope. In that case a cafard would be one who masquerades in priestly or leamed dress.
L 2032. un boulet aux pieds, 'a cannon-ball chained to his feet,' as was done with convicts.
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L 2060. la dépouille Belge. After the victory of Jemmappes the French had overrun Belgium and, though the soldiers had not yet learnt to plunder as they did later, the emissaries of the Republic had taken their share. Danton, the friend of Dumouriez, was one of the Commissioners in Belgium.
la Capoue, alluding to the old story that Hannibal's army was ruined by its stay in the luxurious city of Capua.
1. 2062. la lanterne en main, alluding to the story of Diogenes the Cjmic lookîng for **a man" with a lantern in broad daylight.
L 2061. ce sont eux, C^est becomes plural when followed by a plural pronoun of the third person. This rule is not always followed. See Eve, § 70.
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L 2064L Ami du peuple, This was one of the many titles of Marat*s newspaper, and eventualiy he appropriated the name to himself.
I. 2071. Au sein des profondeurs &*c. *1 carry reform deep down.' L 2076. ceux qui manqueront^ * those who lack.' Hère the future
tense is used because the time spoken of is r^arded 2& future. Compare note on 1. 97a.
II. 2080, 2082. ce sont des plaisirs,., Que cet abaissement. Hère the real subject of the verb, aâaissement, introduced by qitt pleonastic, is singular^ but ce sont is written because followed by the plural plaisirs. See Eve, § 70.
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