Lignes de 'issembourg, see \\ ssembourg in the Index

Z9, 13. Ærcan, auction. O. Fr, ‘‘en quant ;"" Lat. ‘‘in’’ and ‘* quantum.”

14. Livre, a French coin, now called a franc ; the word is still used, however, in such expressions as ‘‘ il a 10,000 livres de rente,” he has an income# of 10,000 francs.

80, 12. Abatis, from ‘‘ abattre,” to pull dowu.

81, 67. Sans rompre d'une semelle, without flinching ; in fencing, ‘“ompre ” means to retire in parrying ; ‘* semelle,” sole (the width of a sole).

13. Le vainqueur de Rucroï, Louis IT., Prince of Condé, surnamed “ Le Grand Condé,” beat the Spaniards at Rocroi (see l'dex) 1643 ; he had to be awakened before the battle,

82, 12. Déblucus, a nilitary term. The action of raising a blockade or vf causiug it to be raised. Ir is used here in the latter sense,

88, 38. L'épée de Damoclès, the sword of Damocles, one of the courtiers of Dionysius of Syracuse (fuurth century B.C ) To show him that kinys were not so happy as he thought, the tyrant invited him to a sumptuous entertainment, at which he caused a naked sword to be suspended over his head by a single hair,

88, 17. Sans reproche, being without reproach, having nothing with which to reproach myself.

89, 17. Carmes, a monastery of Carmelite frisrs in the rue Vaugiraid. in Paris, used as a prison during the Revoluiion,

19. Concieryirie, part of the Palais de Justice (law-courts) ; it was or, 1ally the res dence of the judye called in Paris “Concierge du Palais de Paris” (988), afterwards ‘* Bailh du Palais ” (1348) : concierge now means porter, door-keeper,

AO, 11. Fournée, a batch, an oven-full, from ‘‘ four,” an oven, Cf. ‘“ brassée,”” an arm-full; ‘* poignée,” a handful; ‘# maisonnée,” a house-full, &c.

45, 25. Un supplice inventé pour abréyer les souffrances, the guillotiue, invented by Guillotin, a celebrated doctor 738

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1814). Before the Revolution noblemen were beheaded and commoners hanged ; the Assembly, December 1, 1789, abalished this distinction,

46, 2. Terroristis, name Liten to the prrtisans or agents of the

‘jégime de la Terreur,” which began with the fall of the ‘‘ Girondins” (see Vergniaud, ‘* Index”) May 31, 1793, and lastcd until the fail Lf Robespierre, July 27, 1794 (9 thermider an II.) ; the principal victims of this ‘“iégime ” were Marie-Antoinette, Madame Elisabeth (sister of Louis XVI.), the ‘ Girordins,” the duke Louis-Philippe Joseph d'Orléans (Phil'ppe-Eygalité}, André-Clén'er, Macame Roland, &c., &ec,