I. détenus politiques de la Vendée, ' political Vendean

prisoners,' i.e. the ultra-royalists who had opposed the new Government. The Vendeans only recognised the direct hoir to the Bourbons, i.e. the ' Duc de Bordeaux, Comte de Chambord. ' See notes p. 10, 1. 11, and p. 47, 1. 24.

,, 14. Saint-Roch : a large church in Paris, in the Rue Saint- Honoré.

,, 19. un double louis : i.e. a gold coin worth forty francs. The louis, a gold coin, was first struck in the reign of Louis XIII. Hence its name. Under the First and Second Empire the name of Napoléon was substituted for Louis. A twenty-franc pièce is, in the présent day, sometimes called by the name of l07iis, sometimes by the name of napoléon. The louis or napoléon has varied in value, according to the epoch, between twenty and twenty-four francs, and the double louis, similarly, between forty and forty-eight francs.

, , 24. les pensionnaires de la liste civile, ' those pensioned off by the king's private purse. '

31. 23. mis à l'index, 'forbidden,' i.e. ' left in the cold." The

Index Libi-orum prohibi forum, from which this expression comes, contains a list of the books that faithfui Catholics are forbidden to read. The list is made out by the 'Congrégation of the Index,' composed of a board of cardinals at the Papal Court.