Lignes de Wissen. 1, see Wissembour' in the Index

29, 13. £rcan, auction. + 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 10,900 francs,

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

31, 6-7. Sans rompre d’une semelle, without flinching ; in fencing, “rompre ” means to retire in parrying ; ‘* semelle,” sole (the width of a sale).

13. Le vainqueur de Rucroi, Louis IT., Prince of Condé, surnamed “ Le Graud Condé,” beat the Spaniards at Rocroi (see Index) 1643 ; he had to be awakened before the battle.

82, 12. Déblocus, a military term. The action of raising a blockade or of causing it to be raised. It is used here in the latter sense,

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

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

39, 17. Carmes, a monastery of Carmelite friars in the rue Vaugirard, in Paris, used as a prison düring the Revolution.

19. Conciergerie, part of the Palais de Justice (law-courts) ; it was originally the residence of the judge called in Paris “ Concierge du Palais de Paris” (988), afterwards “Bail! du Palais ” (1348) ; concierge now means porter, door-Kkeeper,

O0, 11. Fournée, a batch, an oven-full, from ‘‘ four,” an oven, CF. “ brassée,”” an arm-full; ‘poignée,’ à handful ; ‘ maisonnée,” a house-fu!l, &c.

45, 25. Un supplice inventé pour abréger les souffrances, the guiliotine, invented by Guillotin, a celebrated doctor (1735-

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and commoners hanged ; the Assembly, December 1, 1789, abolished this distinction.

46, 2. Terroristes, name given to the partisans or agents of the ‘ régime de la Terreur,” which began with the fall of the ‘Girondins ” {see Vergniaud, ‘* Index”) May 31, 1793, and lasted until the fall of Robespierre, July 27, 1794 (9 thermidor an II.) ; the principal victims of this “ régime ” were Marie-Antoinette, Madame Elisabeth (sister of Louis XVI.), the ‘“ Girondins,” the duke Louis-Philippe Joseph d'Orléans (Philippe-Egalité), André-Chénier, Madame Roland, &c., &c.