savoir (or à savoir), to wit ; namely

5. Lycurgue, a legislator who is reputed to hâve radically refashioned the constitution of Sparta, some eight centuries B. C.

Page 151. — 1. Grégoire (abbé and bishop), one of the most interesting and many-sided of the Revolutionists. A devout, but heretical Catholic, a philanthropie idealist, an intrepid and radical reformer, he stands out as one of the noblest characters of a troubled âge.

2. l'Assemblée constituante (or Assemblée Nationale), the first législative body during the Révolution (1789-91).

3. Père, etc., the revolutionary government, in 1793, adopted a new calendar and a new era. The new era dated from the birth of the Republic at the equinox, on Sept. 22, 1792. Thus autumn was the first season. There were twelve months of thirty days each (plus five holidays). The week was suppressed, as an effete superstition and a scandai, and a reasonable and décimal ten-day period was substituted. The months were renamed, so as to appeal more to the imagination and to hint of the bounties and beauties of nature.

4. les poids, les mesures, the metric System of weights and measures was imposed by the Revolutionary government.

5. les titres de politesse, even the titles Monsieur and Madame, tainted by their noble origin, were replaced by the sevèrely republican appellations of citoyen and citoyenne.

Page 153. — 1. utopie, visionary political idealism. The island of Utopia (" nowhere ") figures in a Latin romance of Sir Thomas More (1516).

Page 154. — 1. adversaire, Joseph de Maistre (1754-1821), an éloquent extremist of the Catholic and monarchie party.