Poche. Cf. note, p

Page 71. 1. 9. Vitdlius. Roman Emperor, a.d. 69.

1. 9. César (b.c. 101-44). One of the greatestsoldiersof antiquity.

1.11. iWontts (b.c. 156-86). The famous rival of /S^Wa (138-79).

Page 72. 1. 6. Tacite (54-130), the celebrated Roman historian, author of the Annales and Germania.

Page 78. 1. 35. Il mourvi en Coton et en Sénèque à la fois. Cato Uticensis, who stabbed himself after the defeat of Scipio at Thapsus, B.c. 45, rather than fall into the hands of Caesar. Seneca, the philosopher, committed suicide a.d. 65.

Page 80. I. 10. Marat. Cf. note, p. 159, 1. 12.

1. 12. Jeanne d'Arc de la liberté. Charlotte Corday is hère compared to Jeanne d'Arc, * la Pucelle d'Orléans,' who freed France from the yoke of England, but was bumed alive at Rouen as a witch, 1431.

1. 20. l'insurrection girondine. This is the name given to the federalist rising in Normandy, the centre of which was Caen, Immediately after the coup d'état, the Girondins flocked in great numbers itito Normandy, and began to disseminate federalist principles. It is a mistake, however, to assert that they created the rebelUon. As a matter of fact, they, in Normandy as elsewhere, displayed that lack of initiative which made them so ineffective as a pohtical party, and for which they personally paid so dearly. The insurrection, which had already been planned in Normandy, was the cause — not the resuit — of their choosing Caen as a place of refuge.

Page 81. 1. 8. Pierre Corneille (1606-1684). The father of French tragedy. His most famous plays are : ' Le Cid,' ' Horace,' ' Cinna,' ' Polyeucte,' ' Rodogune.' Charlotte Corday was his great-grand-niece in the female Une.

1. 18. qu'elle avait recueillie et élevée 'pour étayer sa vieillesse. This is not quite accurate. After the suppression of the monasteries which terminated her stay in the Abbaye de la Trinité, Charlotte Corday had retumed to her father, and it was not until June, 1792, that she took up her abode with Madame de Bretteville, a relation whom she had previously hardly known, and who seems to hâve received her with some degree of distrust and suspicion : ' elle avait l'air de méditer un mauvais coup.'

Page 83. 1. 3. ce davier de l'âme, this gamut of the soûl.

1. 11. François de Corday d'Armont was the younger son of the yoimger branch of an ancient family, and hence poor. He was an ardent upholder of the ideas of Turgot, and a staunch advocate of reform, yet he remained a Royalist.

1. 21, l'aristocratie et la mer s'épousaient à Venise. An allusion to the custom of wedding the Adriatic with a ring, practised by the Doges of Venice.

Page 84. 1. 16. l'abbaye aux Dames, or l'abbaye de la Sainte Trinité à Caen, was founded by Mathilda, wife of WiUiam the Conqueror. It was not really a school for girls, and Charlotte

Corday seems to hâve owed lier réception there to the favour and médiation of Madame de Pontécoulant, assistant to the Abbess, Madame de Belzunce.

1. 26. gynécée, from Gk. 6 ywaïKÔiv or ^ yvvmK.mv'LTis, pertaining to a woman. Among the Greeks the ywaïKwv was the part of the house reserved for the women, and the àvbpû>v, or àvôpwvînr, the men's part.

Page 85. 1. 11. La philosophie, qui inondait alors la France. Cf. note, p. 137, 1. 36.