servant de prison = tenant lieu de prison

1. 27. Dijon (L. Dizio), chief place of the department of Côte d'or. — Aurelian, the emperor, had built there a temple dedicated to the gods (Divis) ; hence the name.

L 28. de prêter le serment, to take the oath, i.e. to the new King, Joseph Buonaparte, whom Napoléon had placed on the throne of Spain instead of the Bourbon, Charles IV.

P. II, 1. 7. Auxonne, a small town in the same department. The fortified castle was buiit by Louis XII.

1. 9. Besançon (L. Vesontio), chief town of the department of Doubs, has formed part of France since 1674; before that time it belonged to the German empire. Was fortified by Vauban.

1. 14. mademoiselle de Saint-Simon ; her father was governor of Madrid at the time when the French took possession of that town.

1. 17. Joux, a State prison at the entrance to Switzerland, between Pontarlier and 2s eufchâtel. Foucquet and Mirabeau were confined there. S. 7

1. 20. Toussaint Lotivertitre (1743 — 1S03) failed in his attempt to free the islançl of Haïti from the rule of the Fiench republic, and was compelled to surrender to General Leclerc.

I. 21. avait été cruel ; the insurrection of Haïti liad, naturally, been attended by terrible barbarities.

II. 24, 25. y e passai, I passed (once for ail); je pensais, I was then thinking (i.e. at the time when 1 passed).

1. 26. les Alpes, more properly the Jura, the mountains separating France from Switzerland.