— Madame Roland—One of the most celebrated characters
of the Revolutionary period. After her marriage and removal to Paris, she became the Queen of the Gironde party, and was involved in its ruin. She was executed in1793. Her memoirs throw a vivid lighton the events which led to the Reign of Terror.
de Bailly—A distinguished member of the Commons, who was elected President of the National Assembly. After the formation of the Commune, he was chosen Mayor of Paris, but becoming uupopular, he was replaced by Petion and guilotined 1705.
Line 10.—Barnave—An eloquent deputy of the States-General. He was one of the commissioners sent to stop the fiighi of the Royal Family, bui was afterwards gained to the
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Line 10.—Malesherbes—One of the advocates who pleaded the cause of Louis XVI. in the Convention; put to death in 1794,
«6 constituants—Members of the Constituant Assembly.
Line 11.—girondins- See Note, p. 18, 1 8.
Line 13.—Montagnards See Note, p. 18, 1. 7. The most celebrated were Robespierre, Danton, Marat. :
Line 15.—tant de meurtres &e.—So many murders and so much blood—{tant may be used before a noun of either number, and, therefore, does not require to be repeated.
Line 17.—le vainqueur Tn opposition to Houchard,
Line 18.—hache—Axe—h. aspirate—English, hatchet, hash.
Line 21.—Est—Besides this word and owest, final # is sounded in a few others, e.g., fat, bout, dot, alert, correct, direct, exact.
«6 faisait ombrage—(Gave offence,
Line 22.—rudesse Violence.
Line 25.—superbe—Arrogant.
Line 24.—dont—$ee Note, p. 82, 1. 22. Line 25.—l’abattre-Crushing him, se dégoûts—Mortifications.
lasser—Wearing out—from adj. Las tired.
Line 28.—lui imposait—Jm»poser takes à after it,
Line 29.—réelamait — Protested— Imperfect of repeated action D. F. 651.
Line 31.—Simples--Insignificant—trifiing.
# contre Tui— Against him—.e., so as to throw blame upon
him.
Lino 83.—privé de.—Without—in want of.
‘6 empiétait— Was encroaching—from en and pied.
Line 35.—gravement-—$Seriously.
Line 86.—& son regard—With regard to him.
Line 38.—l’épée de Damoclès— Damocles was one of the courtiers of Dionysius of Syracuse. Tn order to show him that kings were not 50 entirely happy as he imagined, the tyrant invited him to a feast at which a naked sword was suspended over his head by à single hair. In all
ages this has been a favorite illustration of writers and speakers,
M Pace 84.
Line 1.—il ne s’en cachait pas—He made no concealment of it —se cacher de quelque chose, to conceal a thing; se cacher à quelqu'un, to hide one’s self from a person.
Line &.—démission—Resignation.
« incessao mment—Tn,mediately—Incessantly is an obsolete meaning of the word.
Line 9.—naigreur—Bitterness—ill-feeling.
Line 10.—ardent ami—Appositive to je in j'ai cru : therefore no article is used.
Line 11.—Hélas !—Tn this word final s is sounded ; also in vis (serew) lys, as (ace), ours, and some others.
Line 12.—malheur à qui—Woe to the man who—The antecedent of qui is omitted.
Line 14.—sans plaisir ni peine—The use of ni is accounted for by the fact that sans has a sort of negative meaning. In the same way the negative aucun does not require ne when sans is used withit, as, IL est venu sans aucune lettre.
“u c’est assez &c.—T have told you enough of my troubles.
Line 16.—contrarié—Thwarted.
Line 17.—rebuté—Discouraged.
“ que la malveillance &c.—Which malice spread in his path.
Line 19.—qui le fuyaient—Which shunned him—4.e., which he could not obtain.
Line Y1.—Thionville—A fortified town on the Moselle, north of Metz.
Line 22,—la décenre &c—The modesty of her demeanor,
Line 28.—6tait directeur des vivres— Was commissary—had charge of the provisioning of the army.
Line 28.—point la richesse—Elliptical for Je ne demande point la richesse. The English word riches is a contracted form of richesse.
Line 32.—qu’il ne lui &c.--That she will want nothing except what she will not ask for—1.e., that she will haveeverything she wants.
Line 34.-—dépassait de beaucoup—Far surpassed.
Line 86.-l’obtenir d’elle-même"l'o obtain her from herself__1.e., that she should of her own accord accept him, not urged by her parents because it was a better match than they
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