mèneraient des mains, ' should fight

1. 25. Jean Desmarest was avocat général of the Parliament of Paris. He was beheaded by Charles VI for encouraging the Maillotin rébellion.

L 28. Moreau le général, et Limoëlan. Jean Victor Moreau (1763-1813) was one of the most brilliant gênerais of the Révolution. He was opposed to the ascendancy of Napoléon, and served as a Russian officer against the armies of the Empire. He was killed before Dresden in 1813. Limoëlan was a Royalist intriguer who was involved in the explosion of an infernal machine in the Rue Saint Nicaise at Paris in 1799. He escaped to America where he took Roman orders and became celebrated under the name of the Abbé de Clorivière.

Page 52. 1. 23. je n'ai point senti mon pédant, ' I hâve not been a prig.'