eau-de-vie de marc, brandy made from the marc of grapes

38. — 1. Gaudebec, a manufacturing town on the Seine, 20 miles northwest of Rouen.

4. Blanqni, Louis Auguste, 1805-1881. Early in life he threw bimself into the political arena. Of great éloquence and extraordinary boldness, and convinced tliat by force alone could govemments be reformed, he was several times condemned to prison, and once to death. The latter sentence was pronounced bj the House of Peers in 1889 for insurrection, but was commuted into imprisonment for life. He of course obtained his liberty in 1848. Sentenced again to ten years, he was again set free by the amnest^of 1859. In 1861 he was imprisoned for belongirfg to a secret society. In 1871 he took part again in an insurrectionary movement.

11. 86 l'était tenn pour dit. Ut. ** had held that as said to him"; i.e. *'had profited by it.'*

20. obseurantisme, the System that has for its aîm keeping the people in ignorance.

22. Concordat, an agreement concluded in 1801 between Napoléon Bonaparte, First Consul, and Pope Pius VII. ■ It reestablished the Roman Catholic Church in France, and granted to the government the right of appointing archbishops and bishops, the Pope reserving to himself the right of confirmation.