si je ne gardais, E.B

1. 32. Il y a quatre ans seulement. About the time of the coup d'état of the 18th Fructidor (1797), when La-Réveillère Lepaux revived Robespierre's scheme for a new deistic form of worship.

1. 34. vous prenez... 'you soon make yourselves at home.' Compare the phrase /«y/ à terre, meaning a place one can stay at, a footing.

1. 36. comme Louis XIV. The ''libertés gallicanes,' first asserted by the Pragmatic Sanction in 1438, were reasserted by an assembly of the French clergy in 1682 in four propositions drawn up by Bossuet. They were (1) God has given no power over temporal matters to St Peter and his successors, (2) General Councils are superior to the Pope in matters spiritual, (3) The customs established in the Gallican Church remain unalterable, (4) The decisions of the Pope, in matters of faith, are only valid when the Church has accepted them. Louis confirmed the decision of the clergy by edict, but subsequently retreated from his position. Had he maintained it, or pushed it a little further, the case would have been not unlike Henry VIII. 's.

1. 38. pipe, 'deceives,' from luring birds by imitating their notes. One also says piper des dés, des cartes, ' to tamper with.'

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