placarder, to post up a notice

P. 61, 1. 5. dont le secret, ^c, whose strength dépends entirely on their being kept secret.

1. 6. Antoine Raimond Jean Gualbert Gabriel de Sartiiie (1729 — 1801), lieutenant-general of the police under Louis XV and Louis XVI ; then placed at the head of the French admiralty, where he succeeded Turgot, and remained in office till 1780.

1. 7. livrée, "anciennement, vêtement qu'un seigneur, un prince, un roi faisait délivrer aux membres de sa famille et aux gens de sa maison." (Littré.)

1. 13. caporal. The etymology of this word is doubtful; Henri Estienne maintained that it should be spelt corporal, as in English, deriving it from corps {de gardé).