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Pagr® 158* — I. poudre. Powdered hair and wigs were generally worn before the Révolution.

2. ci-devant, a name given to surviving members of the old aristocracy whose titles had been abolished June 20thy 1790.

3. proscrit. On September 22, 1792, the forms of address Madame, Monsieur, were forbidden as derogatory to republican simplicity. The légal address, as we see immediately below, was "Citizen."

Page 155. — i. garde nationale. This was first organized under a decree of August 23, 1793, ^"^ comprised ail citizens capable cf bearing arms. Note the anachronism.

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