installé : Settled down, a permanent résident

38.5. politiques : Political offenders. ' Politics ' is ' la politique.'

38.6. la Carmagnole : A song and round dance popular during the Révolution, the refrain of each verse of the poem being :

" Dansons la Carmagnole — vive le son du canon ! " The naine was first applied to the short jacket brought into vogue largely by the influence of the Marseilles volunteers, who may hâve derived it from the Piedmontese workmen of Carmagnola.

38.7. Ça ira : A popular revolutionary song of sinister memory, worthless as literature, but one of the most potent songs of its kind. The refrain goes :

Ah ! ça ira, ça ira, ça ira !

Les aristocrates à la lanterne !

See note 17.1.

38.8. traité de citoyen : Styled ' citizen,' an appellation which replaced ' monsieur ' during the Révolution. ' Traiter de ' : to name, call, style ; ' traiter comme ' : to treat as.

39.1 . noircissait du papier : ' "Wasted a lot of paper and ink.'