ce. See Appendix I. A

240. vous n'êtes pas prisonnier. An allusion to the fate of the Pope's predt cesser, Pio vi., who was dethroned by the French ; he was expelled from Rome and deposed (Feb. 1798), and sent to Valence in France, where he died a captive (Aug. 1799).

par Dieu, * by God.' N,B, * Mon Dieu * = * Deur me 1 * merely.

Oh. IV.] NOTES. 163

24Z. comme Tair, ' as air.*

243. ce qu'il 7 ayait . . . despotique, 'the stupendous character of the iraperiousness of this despotic nature.'