receveurs de la capitation, coUectors of the poll-tax

1. 28. de puissants secours. " Marlborough had been (1706) for some time in communication with the marquis de Guiscard who was a refugee from the Cévennes, and profuse of promises as is the wont of exiles. He was certain, he said, the Protestants of Languedoc would rise in arms once more as soon as a friendly force appeared in sight of their hills. Both Marlborough and St John lent an ear to his représentations, and had directed twelve régiments of foot with some dragoons to assemble at Portsmouth, there to enibark, as soon as the arrangements

should be ready. The troops were to he headed by Lord Rivers, and accompanied by de Guiscard with other French Protestant officers. Landing at Blaye near the mouth of the Gironde, they would endeavour to raise the Cëvennes in insurrection, and failing in that object, they might burn the ships at Rochefort on their return. In any event it was thought that this expédition would prevent the French from sending reinforcements eitlier in Italy or Spain." (Lord Stanhope, Reign of Queen Anne, pp. 213, 214.)

1. 31. Ce cri sédnit partout la populace. It is not only the/ip/z/Zar^ to whom the cry of freedom of conscience appeals ; Voltaire himself did the utmost to diffuse a principle without which life would be intolérable.

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1. 19. (Tune physmioniie douce et agréable. " * He was of very mean appearance,'says speaker Unslow (notes to Burnet's history)." (Stanhope's Queen Anne, p. 162.)

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1. 7. sans raisonner, without further questioning. 1. 9. la bataille d' Hochstedt, or Blenheim, in 1704.

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1. 5. On leur faisait à^^c, they contrived to send them moncy by way of Geneva.