Robinsy see note on p. 84, L

calotinsj a nickname like robins, from calotte, the cap wom by priests.

L 2117. à quoi les connais-tuf 'how do you know them?* or *by what do you know them ? * Verbs of gaining^ recognising^ &c., take a </a/iwof the instrument. See Eve, § 150.

L 2123. Atroce et ridicule I Robespierre, who was very particular in his dress, would hâve fallen under the proposed proscription.

Page 110.

L 2138. Pour 6ter, * to strip oiT. '

1. 2144. f ignore les besoins. But according to Madame Roland, and other witnesses, Marat had other apartments more luxuriously fitted up. He was indeed accused of appropriating fiimiture, &c, seized by the Commune.

L 2145. Phocion, Phocion, as the head of the aristocratie party at Athens and the opponent of Demosthenes, was hardly a model for Marat; but the allusion is to his simplicity and frugality of life.

1. 2147. vingt livres, Hardly so many. He had written on light, fire, electricity, &c. — also (in English) a political pamphlet called the Chains of Slavery,