ménagements, concessions

1. 20. il en était, âr'c., at least, such concessions were made formerly: the stress is on the past tense, était.

1. 22. qit'il n'avait pas, âr'c., that he had not prevailed upon his sons, &c.

1. 23. du service de Russie. "Un de ses fils, Emmanuel de Saint- Priest, né à Constantinople en 1776, prit du service en Russie, fit contre la France les campagnes de 1806 et années suivantes, entra en France avec l'armée ennemie, emporta de vive force la ville de Reims, mais mourut peu après (1814) de ses blessures." (Bouillet.)

1. 24. rémigration : at the beginning of the Révolution, between 1789 and 1793, a large number of royalists and aristocrats left France : thèse persons were called émigrés, and their exodus the émigration.

1. 30. se faire mettre, ér'c., allow themselves to be placed xmder police superv'ision : cf. p. 6, 1. 6, and note.

P. 31, 1. 2. que ce ne fût moi=^\i\x\. that it %vas I.

1. 16. vous en saurait mauvais gré, would be angry with you on that account.

1. 23. le temps de la Terreur: the period called "the Terror," in •which the September massacres and other acts of revolutionary violence took place, lasted from September 1792 to the death of Robespierre, July 1794. It is sometimes, however, held to date from the sitting of the Committee of Public Welfare, Sept. 5, 1793, at which a report of Barère was adopted, in which he said that "terror was to be the order of the day." This report was followed by several measures, rendering the machinery of massacre more efficient.