marchands de chicane, pettifoggers

4. collèges, secondary schools (High Schools). By Université is meant the centralized organization of public instruction of ail grades.

Page 195. — 1. Camille Desmoulins, a talented Revolutionary journalist and orator, guillotined with Danton in 1794.

2. Bourges, a city of central FYance, in whose law school some of the greatest French jurists lectured.

Pagre 196. — 1. feux de Bengale, blue-lights (fireworks).

Page 199. — 1. Strasbourg was a bishopric under the old régime. Cf. page 24, note 1.