géhenne, 'punished

y ay perdu, i.e. fy ai perdu.

1. 22. quant et quant, for quand et quand, ' at the same time.' 1. 36. frondeur en politique, ' a free-lance in matters of politics.'

Page 86. 1. 2. L'abbé Raynal (1713-1796) was a priest who abandoned the Church and took to the pursuits of an historian. His most noted work was the Histoire philosophique des deux Indes, which consisted of violent diatribes against religion and the political théories of the day. In 1781 the book was publicly burnt by the hangman.

1. 5. janissaires, ' janissaries,' the famous bodyguard of the Sultans. This corps d élite, which at its full complément consisted of 100,000 men, was originally recruited from among the Christian prisoners of the Turks. Having rendered itself obnoxious to the throne by its constant cabals, it was disbanded by the Sultan Mahmoud II in 1826, and the greater part of thèse splendid troops were massacred in the streets of Constantinople.