exempt, police officer

Page 86. — i. les Target, les Tronchet, two eminent lawyers. Tronchet afterwards undertook the defence of Louis XVI., after Target's refusai.

2. les Quinze-Vingts. An old asylum in Paris for three hundred inmates, founded at a time when trois cents was often so expressed. Cf. quatre-vingts in modem French.

3. in extremis, in despair, Usually = "at the point of death."

Page 87. — i. procuration, power of attomey.

Pagre 88. — i. n y va de ma tête, My Ufe is at stake,

2. la Staal. Mme. de Staal-Delaunay (i 684-1 750), writer of memoirs. Of the Bastille she said: "// est vrai qu'en prison Von ne fait pas sa volonté^ "mais aussi Von n^y fait pas celle d^auirui,"

3. Marmontel, famous writer (i 723-1 799), was imprisoned a short while because of some satirical writings.

4. in pace, secret cells in monasteries or convents for the punishment of offenders.

Page 89* — i. Brest, seaport in Brittany.

Page 90. — I. Champenois, a native of the province of Champagne.

2. Mirabeau, great orator and politician while the révolution was brewing (1749-1791).

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3. ménagée, weil treated. Just below, ménager = to keep on good terms with.

Page 91« — I. in anima yili, upon a worthless person (lit. sout).

Page 92. — i. faisant valoir, emphasizing,