Conventionnels, members of the Convention ; see list of

Assemblies, p. 6, 1. 12. 27. i"^ vendémiaire, see Republican Calendar, p. 142.

110, 15. Principes de 1789; see p. 86, 1. 34, the Constitution of

18. Les deux conseils lé/jitilotifs, the "Conseil des Anciens " and " Conseil des Cinq-Cents."

37. Mesures draconiennes, severe and harsh measures ; from " Draco," an Athenian legislator who enacted (about B.C. 623) a criminal code in which slight offences were punished as severely as murdcr and sacrilège. 115, 3. L'anniversaire du 10 ^loî(i, on August lo, 1792, Santerre, Westermann, and Fournier, at the head of 3000 workmen, attacktd the " Tuileries ;" the king took refuge in the National Assembly, where his dethronement was voted.

36. A bout portant, point-blank ; literally with the muzzle bearing on the object at which one aims. ^16, 2 2. Un cmjnrique, a charlatan, a quack ; one whose practice is not based on science; from the Greek év in, and Tnlpx, expérience.

117, 19. Ze vainqueur d'Arcole et de Rivoli, Bonaparte ; see in the

Index both thèse towns.

118, 30. Byron's lines are as follows : —

By Coblentz, on a rise of gentle ground, There is a small and simple pyramid, Croïvning the summit of the verdant mound ; Beneath its base are heroes' ashes hid, Our enemy's— but let not that forbid Honour to Marceau ! o'er whose early tomb, Tears, big tears, gush'd from the rough soldier's lid, Lamenting and yet envying such a doom, Falling for France, whose rights he battled to résuma.

Brief, brave, and glorious was his yourg career, His mourners were two hosts, his friends and foes. And fitly may the stranger lingering hère Pray for his gallant spinl's bright repose ; For he was Freedom's champion, one of those, The few in number, who had not o'erstept The charter to chastise which she bestows On such as wield her weapons ; he had kept The whiteness of his soûl, and thus men o'er him wept.

120, 2. Au tiers et au quart, right and left ; " le tiers et le quart " means the third or fourth person whom one happens to meet, anybody ; cf. "Le premier venu," the first who turns up.

PaRC. Line.

122, 9. Les grands principes de 1789, see note p. 86, I. 34, on

the Constitution of 1791, which contains some of

them.