inconséquence, inconsistency

Paçe 105. — I. 'myoïts^ insults,

2. £on; the chevalier d'Éon (i 728-1810), a well-known soldier, diplomatist and writer, of such effeminate appearance that he could pass for a woman as well as a man.

Pag^e 106» — I. Messaline, Roman empress of vile memory. In the acte d^ accusation at the trial of the queen in 1 793 she is put on a level with les Messalines, Brunekaut, Frédégonde et Médicis, que Von qualifiait autrefois de reines de France ^ et dont les noms^ à jamais odieux^ ne s* effcueront pas des fastes de Vhistoire,

2. la BrinvillierSy the marquise de Brinvilliers, celebrated poisoner, executed in 1676.

3. Bnrke, £dmund Burke, English statesman and orator (1730- 1797).

Page 107* — i'. DamienSi tried to kill Louis XV. with a penknife; executed in 1757.

2. Vendée, French province, headquarters of the royalists in the Révolution.

3. terreur blanche, name given to the excesses committed at the Restoration in 181 5, by the Royalists whose banner was white.

Deatb'd /Doôern Xanduage Séries.