voulait faire parler, invoked

3. le baume celeste, the heavenly unction (lit., “ balm ”) ; allusion to the consecrated oil which served for the coronation of all French kings down to the Revolution.

Page 53 . — 1. pour staler, to display , i.e., to remind the Parisians that his father’s blood had been shed by the Orleanists. — comme Antoine. The allusion is to Antony’s famous funeral speech at which he showed the people a waxen figure representing the dead Coesar with the ghastly wounds made by the daggers of the assassins.