Assemblée nationale, cf. page 151, note

4. jacquerie, revolutionary disorder (originally a sanguinary peasant*insurrection in 135S). The nickname for a peasant was Jacques Bonhomme.

5. vivent en pleine églogue, live under purely idyllic conditions.

Page 145. — 1. et de reste, " enough and to spare," i.e. and only too well.

Page 146. — 1. Hume, etc., cf. page in, note 5.

2. Carnivore et carnassier, carnivorous and rejoicing in carnage.

Page 147. — 1. de toutes façons, in any case.

Page 148. — 1. lettres de cachet," letters with the royal seal,"

warrants ordering the arrest or exile of the person named therein. They were only too f requently disposed of blank by ministers — and even by their valets. Under Louis XV as many as 150,000 were issued.

Page 149. — 1. Quesnay (1694-1774), one of the founders of political economy.