un chasseur, 'a chasseur (trooper

1. 27. pas de danger, 'no fear '; for il n'y a pas de danger.

1. 34. tout à Vheure, 'presently' ; may be said of future time='by and by', or of past time = 'just now'.

1. 38. fVj/t'^a/...'nevermind, whatever they may say to the contrary the Republic does not pamperus' (lit. 'does not bind us with gilt edges'}.

1. 39. le vertueux Barras... 'honest Barras relies too much upon the stupidity of the soldier '. Vertueux is applied ironically to Barras who was one of the most immoral and corrupt members of the National Convention.

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1. 1. quel tas de gueux .. .^ \\\\a.i a pack of knaves is this Directory'.

1.4. du papier, 'paper money'; the State notes czWeà Assignats (because their value was assigned on the Church lands which had been declared National property) became so depreciated towards the end of the Convention that a 20ofc. assignat was only worth one franc.

1. 6. Bernadotte, Charles Jean Bernadotte. Prince of Pontecorvo

and ultimatcly King of Sweden, under the title of Charles John XIV, vsas born at Pau in 1764. He was the son of a lawyer and entered the army as a private ; in 1 794 he had risen to the rank of gênerai of brigade ; in 1 799 he was made minister of war, through the influence of Barras.

1. 10. depuis çu'il s'es( allié à la famille Bonaparte, ' since he has become connected with the Bonaparte family'. Bernadotte had married Eugénie Clary the daughter of a merchant at Marseilles ; a sister of hcrs had previously been married to Joseph Bonaparte.

1. 17. des espèces, 'coin' (specie) ; ellipsis for t'ji/cV« 5^«M<z«to which was the original expression = 'sounding spccies of money'. The Lat. spccies is anylhing seen, any sensible form, hence espèce is tangible coin.

1. 28. les anciens...' o\A fellows, how you are got up ; this does net resemble much the Chancellor's court'.

1. 31. le i," jour complémentaire. ..'■QViÛvQ. i.'CcioAà dayof theyear VIT. The Convention decreed that the New Era of the world should date from its own commencement, and that therefore Day i Vear i should be September 22, 1792. They adopted a calendar composed by Fabre d'Eglantine and others, which divided the year into twelve months of 30 days each, with 5 odd days called joins complémentaires (also Sansciilotidcs) and kept as festivals of Genius, Labour, Action, Rewards, Opinion. 1 hère was a sixth Sansculotide in leap-year.

1. 33, 2 vendémiaire. Vendémiaire, Brumaire, Frimaire, or, as one might say in mixed English, Vintage-arins, Fog-ariiis, Frost-aj-ius, were the three Aulumn months; Nivôse, Pluviôse, Ventôse, or say Snow-ous, Rain-oiis, IVind-ous, made up the ^Vinter season ; Germinal, Floréal, Prairial, or Buddal, hloioeral, Meadonval, were the Spring season ; Messidor, Thermidor, Fructidor, that is to say (ilor being Greek for gift) Reapidor, Heatidor, Friiitidor, were Republican Summer. As to minuter subdivisions each month was divided into 3 Décades, the Tenth day being the 'Day of Rest.' The new calendar ceased on the first of January, 1806.

cotnme disent les muscadins, 'as the aristocrats call it'. Afuscadin (which properly means musk-scented), as appiied to foppish and effeminate coxcombs (petits-maîtres), is a term anterior to tlie Révolution.