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 murder and sacrilege,

115, 3. L’anniversaire du 10 Aout, on August 10, 1792, Santerre, Westermann, and Fournier, at the head of 3000 workmen, attacked 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, 22. Un empirique, a charlatan, a quack ; one whose practice is not based on science; from the Greek évin, and mréipa, experience,

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

Index both these towns.

118, 30. Byron's lines are as follows :— By Coblentz, on a rise of gentle ground, There is a small and simple pyramid, Crowning 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 resume.

LVIT, Brief, brave, and glorious was his young career, * His mourners were two hosts, his friends and foes, And fitly may the stranger lingering here Dray for his gallant spirit'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 soul, and thus men o'er him wept.

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

122, 9. Les grands principes de 1789, see note p. 86, 1. 34, on the Constitution of 1791, which contains some of them.