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Puis je l'ai vu tomber écumant et terrible A travers flamme et fer, et la mêlée horrible Sur les marches du Louvre ...

Page 6. 1. 15. Inondant le velours, &c. Such Unes are among the best in the language. The wholesale enlisting of volunteers, hère alluded to, at first formed four armies : Sambre-et-Meuse with Jourdan, Rhin-et-Moselle with Hoche, Pyrénées-Orientales with Dagobert, and Alpes-Maritimes with Dugommier and Captain Bonaparte.

1. 20. Mille nains grelottants. Cf. La Curée, 1. 20 and 1. 77.

Quatre- Vingt-Treize. (MS. : ïambe iv.)

' 93 * is, to French ears, the équivalent of La Terreur (1. 5), the extrême revolutionary régime which began after the fall of the Girondins, May 31, 1793, ^ï^d lasted until the 9th Thermidor (July 27, 1794).

Page 7. 1. 20. de lauriers et de sang : Fleurus, Boulou, Saorge, and Le Vengeur for the Maurel/ and 1,285 guillotined victims in six weeks for the * blood,* assuredly the blood of fellow-citizens.