CHARLOTTE CORDAY

12. The two most prominent parties in the Révolutionary Assembly of 1798 were the Girondins (so called becaose their leaders were f rom the department of la Gironde),

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and the Montagnards (so called because they occupied the highest 8cat8 at the left of the hall where the Aasembly met). The Girondins were the less violent and more conservative of the two parties. 14. On May 81 the Assembly passed a decree ordering the arrest of ail the leading Girondins. They were ail afterwards guillotined. 15. La gnam du Calvados : an unimportant revoit, which broke out in the provinces against the power of the Assembly, and which was easily put down. I ^Q 2. Barbaronz was one of the leaders of the Gironde.

He was not taken with the others, but lay in hiding for some months. He was finally taken and guillotined. 12. Danton and Robespierre were, like Marat, leaders of the Mountain, and each in turn exercised almost despotic power for a short time during the Reign of Terror. Both finally perished by the guillotine.

-fAA 9, dans son bain : at this time people of ten received

while in the bath, the water being rendered opaque by milk or some other mixture, so that only the head of the bather remained visible. 81. empêchent . . . déohiropr0O0n< hsr being lam to pieees : B.G. 847a ; P.G. p. 810 (170a).

LA CANNE DE JONC

^^j 1.^ The révolution of July, 1880, which drove Charles X. from the throne and made Louis Philippe king, lasted only three days. 20. la Garde : a body of choice troopa attached to the service of the sovereign, called Garde Impériale during the empire. Garde Boyalo during the monarchy.