obit (Latin), requiem Mass hère

3. Introibo ad altare Del (Latin), "I will go unto the altar of God." Cp. Psalm xliii, 4. From the Missal.

Page 168. — i. Saint-Pierre de Rome, St, Pete/sy the largest church in the world.

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2. Pater noster (Latin), " Our Father," f irst words of the Lord's Prayer.

3. pardonné lui-même. That Louis uttered this sentiment is well authenticated.

4. Domine salynm fac regem (Latin), "Lord, save the king." Cp. I Samuel x, 24.

5. ennemis. The allusion is to the imprisonment and shamefui abuse of the son of Louis XVI. He died in the prison of the Temple, June 8, 1795, a boy of ten.

6. nouyeau crime, that is, the exécution of Marie Antoinette. October 16, 1793.

Pai^ 170. — I. janséniste y Jansenist, î.e. foUower of the Dutch Bishop Jansenius (about 1640) whose over-stem teaching on divine grâce caused great controversy in the Roman Church. The Jansenists were the Puritans of France (see Une 4). Their opponents, the Jesuits, sometimes stretched the mantle of casuistic charity to cover régicides. Hence the allusion hère.

2. Hucius ScSYOla. Classical names, often, as hère, ridiculously inappropriate, were very common and fashionable at this time in France.

Page 171. — I. prince de Conti. The famous members of this ancient family ail belonged to earlier générations.

2. messe expiatoire, expiatory Mass to atone for the crime of régicide. It is still celebrated annually at Paris in the Expiatory Chapel.

Page 172. — i. cartes civiques, certificaUs of républicanisme issued by the Committee of Safety.

Page 174* — i. 9 thermidor, July 27, date of the fall of Robespierre and the end of the Terror. Thermidor was one of the months of the Republican Calendar adopted in 1 793.

2. Vendéens, royalist insurgents in Vendée (Brittany). They carried on a fierce civil war from March to December, 1793.