en fut ainsi=il fut ainsi sous ce rapport

1. 26. Augereau (Pierre François Charles) [1757 — 1816], "brave

1 1 8 CONSIDÉRA TIONS, à^c. [chap. viii.

homme, excellent soldat, et cœur généreux, mais très-vantard, et trèsmauvaise tête." (Thiers.)

1. 28. songeât is in the subjunctive by attraction on account of que, but songeait w^ould be equally good.

1. 32. de bonne foi, sincère. See above, note to p. 15, 1. 31.

1. 33. quelque distingué qu^ il fût, however eminent he might be.

la paix de Tolentino, peace with the Pope vi^as signed hère, iplh February, 1797. Tolentino is a small town in the former states of the Church (province of Macerata).

1. 13. avec le Pape. The Pope then was Plus VII, Barnabas Chiaramonti (1740 — 1823) ; he had been elected in 1800. j