Le comte d'Artois. See note to p

les trois Condés, i.e. le prince de Condé, his son, the Duc de Bourbon, and his grandson, the Duc d'Enghien. They belonged to a collatéral branch of the Royal Family.

Page 119. 1. 3. Mesdames, known as Mme Adélaïde and Mme Victoire, were the daughters of Louis XV and the aunts of the king.

Madame Elisabeth was the heroic sister of Louis XVI. She afterwards shared the dégradation and imprisonment of the Royal Family, and was guillotined in 1794.

1 4. Monsieur, the Count of Provence. He reigncd as Louis XVIII from 1815 to 1830.

F évasion de Varennes. On June 22, 1791, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, with their children and Madame Elisabeth, made an attempt to escape from France. They reached Varennes and were thsre captured in the shop of a grocer called Sauce, and brought back to Paris.

1. 28. Marat (1744-1793) was originally a horseleech to the Duc d'Artois. He became the editor of L'Ami du Peuple, the organ of the most rabid section of the Revolutionists. He was the prime mover in the massacres of September, 1792, as well as in the exécution of Louis XVI. In 1793 this Nero of the people was stabbed in his bath by Charlotte Corday, a young girl who had been infuriated by his cruelties.

1. 29. MM. FouUonetBertier. Foulon, as he is correctly spelt, was Controller-General of Finance in 1789, after the retirement of Necker. In the same year he was seized outside Paris, dragged into the city, and hung on a lamp-post. Bertier was his son-inlaw, and perished on the same day.

Page 120. 1. 19. O Richard! ô mon roi! V univers t'abandonne are the words of an air from Grétry's opéra of Richard Cœur de Lion. It was one of the terms of the accusation brought against Marie Antoinette that she had allowed this song to be sung in her honour.