Pour être ensanglantée^ *although blood-stained

1. 69. quatre-mngt-neuf '89, ke. 17&91 -the date of the b^nnin^ of the French Révolution.

1. 64. Néron, Nero appears in Racine's Britannicus and other plays.

Macbeth et Richard trois, Shakespeare's tragédies of Macbeth and Richard III, It is rather amusing to find M. Ponsard referring to the crimes of thèse two kings as if the historiés of the two were equally authentic.

1. 68. Girondins or Gironde^ the moderate Republican party in the Législative Assembly of 1791, so called because their chief members were deputies from the région of the Gironde, After overthrowing the monarchy, 1792, they were in turn overthrown in 1793 by the extrenie faction of the Jacobins, and most of their leaders perished ou the scaâbJd»

Mçntagnards or Montagne^ the extrême revolutionary party, also called Jacobins, from the political club of that name, sat on the upper benches of the Convention, which were called the Montagne or Mountain^ a name which was given to the party sitting there. The Girondists sat on the right of the président in the Convention, the Jacobins on the left. The moderate party occupied the floor of the house, in the centre, and were hence called the "Men of the Plain" or sometimes "Frogs of the Marsh."

1. 70. r allusion mauvaise, *spiteful allusions' (to current events).

1. 83. le seul examen fait la solide foi, 'inquiry alone makes a faith that is firm.'