Var. : Grossit à chaque bond ses rangs impétueux

1. 16. This line is as full, graphie, and forcible as on the day it was written ; but its realism must hâve been still more felt by its first readers, in the early days of romanticism, scarcely a few months after the préface to Crornivell, that manifesto of the new school, 1830.

1. 23. La haine du pontife. The religious service on the anniversary of the Duke of Berri's murder (February 13, 1820) gave rise, in 1831, to conflicting démonstrations: riotous mobs sacked the church of St. Germain l'Auxerrois, and, on the i4th, the Archbishop's Palace, near Notre-Dame. The poem was written a few days later.