CHAPTER VI

ARRIVAL AT. NICE—ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION BY THE ARMY OF ITALY —HIS ARREST-—INDIGNATION OF HIS OFFICERS—TAKEN TO PARIS— IMPRISONED IN CARMES AND THE CONCIERGERIE—-THE FRIGHTFUL WORK OF THE GUILLOTINE-—S0CIETY IN THE PRISON-—HIS FEELINGS— HIS FRIEND THOÔIRAS EXECUTED-—CHANGE IN HOCHE—THE TERRORISTS —THER RE-AOTION OF THÉRMIDOR—HOCHA SET FREE — GOE8S TO THIONVILLE.

Line 16.—devancé—Preceded.

Line 19.—accueii—In words ending in weil and weülle, ue has the

sound of ew in heure, or oeu in soeur.

Line 20.—quartier général Head-quarters.

« Nice—A town on the Mediterranean, west of the Gulf of Genoa.

Line 24.—rival de gloire Napoleon Bonaparte. Line 28.—sobre &c.—Abstemious, as he always was.

Line 2.-devant- In deference to.

Line 5.—les repas de Pythagore-—Pythagoras was a celebrated Greek philosopher who believed and taught the doctrine of the transmigration of souls. He absolutely forbade the use of animal food, a consequence, no doubt, of his belief in Metempsychosis.