Roturiers, see note on p

5l, 13. Une guerre de partisans, a partisan war, one which consists in surprising the enemy’s convoys and performing other feats of desultory warfare,

23. Réquisition, a levy, decreed by the Convention, calling out all Frenchmen not married, and from eighteen to twenty-five years of age,

52, 16. Monsieur. ‘he title given to the eldest brother of the king f: m the seventeenth century ; Monsieur le Comte d'Artois (Charles X.) was the last who bore that title.

59, 32. L'acquittement des bons, the paying of the bills; bills generally begin with the words, “* Bon pour la somme de . . .’’—1.e., this is good for the sum of . . ., hence the name ‘* bon ” for bill.

61, 2. Bons anciens, an apostrophe, good people of the olden times.

63, 33. Panthéon, one of the finest monuments in Paris ; originally the church of ‘Ste. Geneviève,” the patron Saint of Paris. The French Assembly in 1791 decreed that it shoula be called ‘* Panthéon,” and become a monument erected to the memory of great men; it bore on its. frontispiece the words, ‘Aux grands hommes la patrie reconnaissante ; ”” in 1852 it was once more restored to its original destination.

G4, 13. Embaucher les soldats, to gain over the soldiers, to induce them to desert ; from ex in, and bauche a place (where work is done, where a workman is employed); ‘édébaucher” means to entice away (from work or right) ; embaucher and débaucher are used by workmen in the sense of to begin and to leave off work.

G5, 15. Commune, the smallest territorial and administrative division in France,

32. Ont insulté à; the verb ‘insulter ” may be used as an active or as a neuter verb ; when neuter it adds to its

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previous sense that of meanness and cowardice ; ‘insulter à la faiblesse,” is to take advantage of weakness to insult it.

13. Vint mouiller, came and cast anchor; ‘“‘ mouiller l’ancre,’’ to anchor.

16. La réaction thermidorienne, see Republican Calendar, p. 142, ‘‘9 and 10 thermidor.”