le comte d'Estaing. See note to p

Page 121. 1. 6. œgipans, a nickname given to Satyrs, and also one of the names of the god Pan.

1. 31. procès-verbal is the full statement in law of a matter in question drawn up by an officer of justice.

Page 122. 1. 2. Mirabeau le jeune. See note to p. 113, 1. 22. Mirabeau Vaîné was the Marquis de Mirabeau, father of the orator.

1. 9. Les dames de la Halle is a name given to the market-women of Paris.

1. 13. Le vicomte de Mirabeau, known as Mirabeau -Tonneau» was a kinsman of the orator.

1. 31. La salle du manège. At this time the National Assembly met in a riding-school close to the Palace of the Tuileries.

Page 123. 1. 3. Robespierre. Maximilien Robespierre waa the chief organiser of the Terror, the instrument of his ascendency being the famous Comité de Salut Public. It was he who substituted the worship of Reason for Christianity, and sought to weld the passions of the Révolution into the shape of a permanent society. Overwhelmed in the gênerai downfall of his party, Robespierre underwent the same fate as his victims, and was guillotined in 1794.

1. 9. Montaigne (1533-1592), the author of the Essais, became involved in the War of the League against the French Protestants. He attempted to médiate between the two parties and thus was equally obnoxious to both.

1. 31. les ordres grecs. There are four orders of Greek architecture, the Doric, the Ionic, the Corinthian, and the Composite. They are recognizable by différences in the columns and in the capitals which surmount them.

Page 125. 1. 1. la fédération de juillet 1790. On this, the first anniversary of the capture of the Bastille, Louis XVI presided in the Champ de Mars over an assembly of 60,000 delegates from ail parts of France, and swore to keep the new constitution.

1. 3. aux brouettes du Champ de Mars. Volunteers with spade and wheelbarrow worked on the raised seats and centre mound in the Champ de Mars, in order to prépare them for the day of the fédération.

1. 4. Madame de Staël (1766-1817), author of Delphine and De V Allemagne, describes this scène in her Considérations sur les principaux événements de la Révolution française.

1. 6. M. de Talleyrand. He was at this time Bishop of Autun. He was subsequently excommunicated by the Pope for favouring the Révolution. Under Napoléon he became Minister of Foreign Affairs and Prince of Benevento. He succeeded in ingratiating himself with the Bourbons and took part in the Révolution of 1830. In 1834 he arranged an alliance with Great Britain which had been the dream of his foreign policy.

L'abbé Louis, afterwards known as Baron Louis, was several times Minister of Finance under Louis XVIII and Louis Philippe.

1. 14. Le duc d'Orléans, known as Philippe Égalité, was the head of the collatéral House of Orléans. From the outset of the Révolution he became a violent opponent of the Court, and especially of the Queen. He was exiled for his political opinions, but afterwards returned to France, became a member of the Jacobin Club of revolutionists, and voted the death of his own kinsman, Louis XVI. He was put on his trial for favouring reactionary measures, and perished by the guillotine in 1793.

li 30. le chevalier de Parny. See note to p. 50, 1. 31.

Page 126. 1. 2. Bordier was an actor of some note. He raised a riot in Rouen in 1789, and led a gênerai assault on the government offices in the city. He was captured once and rescued. Being seized a second time in the act of riot and spoliation, he was executed under military guard.

1. 26. aux Italiens y i. e. Le Théâtre Italien, wherc comédies and comic opéras were played.

I. 26. la Barbe-bleue et le Sabot perdu. The first is a comedy, Raoul Barbe-Bleue, by Sedaine (1719-1797), author of the Reine de Golconde. and Le Philosophe sans le savoir. The second is a comic opéra by Cazotte (1720-1792).

II. 31, 32. Colin . . . Babet. Characters from the light opéra entitled Jeanne et Colin, by Nicolo. Colin is also a popular name for any country swain in love.

Page 127. 1. 21. la coupole arctique, ' the Arctic Cire le.' 1. 38. Tournefort, &c. AU thèse, with the exception of Grew, were celebrated French botanists and writers on botany and agriculture. Grew (1628-1711) was an English physician and botanist. He wrote works on the anatomy of plants and kindred subjects. 1. 39. le Dictionnaire de Rousseau. It is not so generally known that Rousseau (1712-1778), the author of La Nouvelle Heloise, Le Contrat social, and Emile, compiled a Dictionary of Botany as well as a Dictionary of Music.

Page 128. 1. 2. un Linné. Linnaeus (1707-1778), the Swedish naturalist, celebrated for his classification of plants, may be said to be the initiator of botanical science as it is known in modem times.

1. 16. la famille des Desilles. The victims mentioned by Chateaubriand were Angélique Desilles, who was guillotined in 1793, and died with great heroism, and her brother-in-law, Michel de Limoëlan, who perished at the same time.