charlatan, 'quack', 'impostor

1. 18. nous autres, ' we on our side' ; autres is used to give emphasis to the pronoun nous and implics ' in contradistinction'.

1. 27. le tzar Paul ; Czar Paul succeeded to the crown of Russia at the death of the Emprcss Calharine II, in 1797. lie joined the coalition against France in 1799. but retired from it after the defeat of his armics in .Switzcrland. The admiration that he then conceived for Napoléon led him to forin an alliance with France. His reign was eut short by assassination in his own palace, March i8or.

1. 28. des athées républicains, 'republican atheists '; the RevolutioQ had abolished the Christian religion.

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