voix dêlibérative, ' vote in the Assembly

Page 112. 1. 5. patelin, 'plausible.' The adjective is invented from the comedy of ' l'Avocat Patelin,' a development of one of the oldest French farces. Patelin, by his adroitness and flattery, gets a quantity of cloth and succeeds in evading the payment.

1. 22. Champ- Monlmorin, now the Champ de Mars, was a promenade planted by the Comte de Montmorin, at that time in command of the troops of Louis XVI in Brittany.

Page 113. 1. 6. ceci nous regarde, * we must settle this matter.' 1. 15. l'armée de Condé was the army of emigrant French nobles recruited by the Prince de Condé. It fought on the Rhine frontier against the forces of the Révolution and was fiiially disbanded, being unable to withstand the tide of revolutionary conquest.

Charette was one of the leaders of the Royalist revolt in La Vendée against the forces of the Révolution. He was defeated and captured by General Hoche at Quiberon, and shot at Nantes in 1796.

1. 22. Mirabeau (1749-1791) was the Demosthenes of the French Révolution. Being repudiated by the Nobility, he was returned as a member of the Tiers État in 1789. His éloquence was one of the moving forces of the great upheaval. Influenced subsequently by personal motives, or possibly by a désire to allay the storm he had raised, he made overtures towards a recon-

ciliation with the Court. At this juncture he died, and with him died the last hope of restraining the impulses of carnage and terror.

Page 114. L 8. la maison Réveillon. Réveillon was a papermanufacturer. The sacking of his house was one of the first acts of the Revolutionists.

1. 10. Jeu de Paume. On June 20, 1789, the deputies of the Tiers État met in the Paume court at Versailles, and swore not to separate until they had given a constitution to France.

la séance royale du 23 juin. This was the sitting of the États Généraux in which Louis XVI declared that in future the three orders of the Clergy, Nobility, and Tiers État should vote separately. It was on this occasion that he uttered the famous dictum that if the États Généraux failed to frame a constitution for France he would make such a constitution his own business : — 'Seul je ferai le bien de mes peuples.'

1. 26. Camille Desmoulins was one of the most influential of the revolutionary démagogues. He instigated the attack on the Bastille in 1789 and tne final seizure of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette on the night of August 10, 1792. During the Terror he rendered himself obnoxious by pleading for a cessation in the orgies of blood, and was executed as an indulgent, April, 1794.