Louvet. Cf. note, p

1. 32. V insurrection générale des départements du Nord. Cf. note, p. 163, 1. 6.

1. 33. r insurrection républicaine de la Bretagne, generally known as the insurrection of the Vendée. Cf. note, p. 169, 1. 10.

1. 36. Wimpfen. A distinguished gênerai who had risen to eminence during the Seven Years' War. He was at the time of the Norman rising commander-in-chief of the army of the coasts of Cherbourg, intended to repel any Enghsh invasion, but, having made the acquaintance of Buzot, he consented to become the commander of the forces to be raised in Brittany and Normandy against Paris. Unfortunately, only about 4,000 volunteers were forthcoming instead of the 60,0*00 Wimpfen had asked for. Even this small force was not enthusiastic. It was put under the immédiate command of a RoyaUst, Comte Joseph de Puisaye, which gave the Convention a further handle against the Girondiiis. This attempt at a federalist army melted away at the first encounter with the troops of the Convention, and thus the whole rebelUon was quelled without the shedding of a single drop of blood.

Page 92. 1. 35. V insurrection patriotique de 1792. Cf. above, note on p. 90, 1. 33.

Page 93. 1. 16. Franquelin. He was only one of the many reputed lovers of Charlotte Corday. Récent investigations seem to hâve proved that the only person to whom she was really attached was Bougon-Langrais, a native of Caen, and a federahst, elected procureur général syndic of the Calvados in 1792.

Page 95. 1. 2. le pius beau des Girondins. Madame Roland compared Barbaroux to Antinous, and the comparison has remained a mot ailé. Cf. Mémoires, éd. Barrière, p. 396. ' Les peintres

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ne dédaigneraient pas de prendre les traits de Barbaroux pour une tête d'Antinoiis.'

1. 6. Louvet qui depuis écrivit un hymne, &c. Louvet composed a Hymne de Mort, to be sung on the way to the guillotine if he should fall into the hands of his enemies. It contained a stanza dedicated to Charlotte Corday which runs as foUows : — Oui, des bourreaux de l'Abbaye Les succès affreux seront courts.

Un monstre effrayait sa patrie :

Une fille a tranché ses jours.

Liberté, liberté ! que ton bras sur eux se promène ! Tremblez, tyrans, vos forfaits appellent nos vertus. Marat est mort chargé de haine, Corday vit auprès de Brutus.

1. 9. Buz(Â, tout rempli d'une autre image, i.e. that of Madame Roland.

1. 34. Lauze Duperret . . . oublié dans la première proscription. The first proscription of the Girondins had taken place on June 2. It was attacked by those deputies who had been allowed to remain in the Convention, especially by Boyer-Fonfrède, Ducos, Doulcet de Pontécoulant, and Lauze Duperret, and a protest was signed by them known as the Protest of the Seventy-Three. This protest was kept secret, but was fovmd in the papers of Duperret after the arrest of Charlotte Corday, and made use of for the destruction of the remaining Girondins.

Page 96. 1. 2. un écrit de leur ami commun, Salles. The pamphlet that Barbaroux entrusted to Charlotte Corday for delivery to Lauze Duperret was entitled Examen critique de la Constitution.

1. 10. ce n'est pas Marat que nous aurions désigné à sa vengeance. The Montagne always accused the Girondins of having been the instigators of Charlotte Corday in the murder of Marat. But though they admired her courage and felt no moral répugnance for her deed, they considered it a poUtical blunder. They would hâve preferred, for instance, the removal of Danton ; cf. Buzot : ' Croyez que le meurtre de Marat a très bien servi la cause de Robespierre, Barère et Danton, qui ont été délivrés d'un rival très dangereux, ou du moins très nuisible à leur ambition personnelle.' Page 100. 1. 38. Garai. A man of letters, contributor to the Journal de Poris, prof essor at the Lycée, member of the Constituent Assembly, elected Minister of Justice in September, 1792, in place of Danton. On Roland's résignation he became temporarily Minister of the Interior.

Page 101. 1. 32. de mettre les scellés chez les députés, &c. Cf. note on p. 95, 1. 34.

Page 102. 1. 13. le chemin du Palais-Royal. The garden o£ the Palais- Royal had been thrown open to the people by the Duc d'Orléans. It afforded a popular meeting-ground for the lower classes who took an interest in poUtics. Disturbances of ail sorts were of fréquent occurrence. For instance, the news of the dismissal of Necker proclaimed in this garden by Camille Desmoulins led to the storming of the Bastille.

1. 35. la grande cérémonie de la fédération. Cf. Sketch of Révolu tionary E vents, and note, p. 156, 1. 36.

1. 37. jusqu'au triomphe delà République sur les Vendéens. The rébellion in the Vendée is generally regarded as a conséquence of the oath of allegiance to the Constitution exacted from the clergy. But though the clergy in the west were as a body perhaps more unanimous in their refusai to take the oath, popular excitement did not run very high. Nor had thèse provinces been seriously disturbed by the dethronement of the King. But they bitterly resented the conscription of 300,000 men for the wars on the frontier, and the attempt to enforce the conscription led to an insurrection, which was not quelled until October, 1793, when the two leaders, D'Elbée and Bonchamps, fell in the battle of Cholet.

Page 103. 1. 19. Marai ne paraissait plus à la Convention. He was dying by inches of a loathsome skin disease, and had not appeared in the Convention since June 8. The act of Charlotte Corday anticipated the inévitable end by a few weeks at the most.

Page 105. 1. 8. des protes d'imprimerie, foremen, or overseers, from Gk. npôùTos, first.

1. 14. coryphée, Gk. Kopv<paîos, chief leader, generally leader of the chorus (Kopu^iJ, head, summit).