CHAPTER V

HOCHE RESIGNS COMMAND OF THE ARMY OF TEF PRAINE—ENMITY OF ROBESPIERRE AND THE COMMITTEE—REIGN (7 TERROR—UNHAPPY 2'OSITION OF HOCHE-——HIS MARRIAGE—LETTERS TO HIS WIFE—PRE- PARATIONS OF THE COMMITTEE TO CRUSH IIM—REMOVED FROM THE ARMY OF THE MOSELLE-——SENT TO ITALY,

Line 17,-—-voœu-Wish.

Line 18.—exaucé Granted.

Line 19,—mit à eouvert—Protect.

Su ombrageux—Jealous.

Lino 21.—qu’il sy était faits-Whom he had made in it—The participle agrees with the direct object que; not with se, which is the indirect object, meaning—for himself, See D. F. 591.

Line 22.—à lavis desquels—dont can be used only when it is immediately preceded by its antecedent, and followed by the subject of the verb: de qui cannot be used when de implies possession, but only when it means from; du quel &e. must be used when dont aud de qui are inadmissible.

Line 24.-toujours en mission—Still on mission—1.e. still representing the committee at the head-quarters of the army.

auprès—Free-masons use à similar expression, e.g., ‘Our Representative near the Grand Lodge of England.”

Line 25.—pardonner à—$See Note, p. 15, 1. 39.

Line 28.—revendiquèrent—The verb means strictly to claim something of which one has been deprived unjustly.

Line 2.—pour—-Against.

Line 3.—songenit—Songer is generally used when one’s thoughts rest light!y on à subject: penser implies deliberate reflection—deep thought.

Line 4—on était axrivé—The climax of the Reign of Terror had been reached.

Line 6.—ombrageuse—Suspicious.

Line 8.—et la science—Observe omission of par between le talent

and La science, as they are to some extent synonymous.