Saint-Domingue, in the West Indies

4. claie. The bodies of suicides were dragged in disgrâce upon a hurdle.

Page 51* — I. capitoul, title of the mayor and aldermen of Toulouse.

2. juges d'instruction, the French magistrates charged with drawing up (instruire) 2l case to décide if it shall corne to trial.

Page 52* — i. Saint-Barthélémy Toulousaine. Toulouse was always a home of reaction and religions persécution. The genuine massacre of St. Bartholomew, in Paris, was in 1572.

2. Albigeois. The massacres of the Albigenses in the south of France took place in the early thirteenth century.

Page 53. — i. Calvin, chief of the most important sect of French Reformers (1509-1564).

Page 54. — i. Voltaire, one of the greatest of French writers and philosophers (i 694-1 778).

2. TertuUien, great theologian of the early Church (160-245).

3. Augustin, Si. AugusHnâ (354-430). The allusion is to the saying credo quia absurdum,

4. Rochette, a young Protestant minister, arrested in 1761 by some Catholics and condemned to death.

Pagre 55. — i. Rabaut (171^1794), famous Protestant minister, who devoted himself chiefly to ministrations in the mountain wildemesses.

2. Genève, the headquarters of Calvinism and of Protestantism.

3. Nîmes, in the south of France, near the mouth of the Rhône.

Pagre 57. — i. Richelieu, grandnephew of the cardinal, marshal of France (i 696-1 788).