second tiers, etc. : see above, p. 23, 1. 24 fï

L 12. des affaires. The trc'ï// ûf'(?Va/f of Fructidor (September 1797) was the indirect but necessary resuit of the royalist intrigues which surrounded the Directoire. "Ce coup d'état," says M. Ludovic Lalanne, *'qui rendit possible le 18 Brumaire, ne mit point fin à la lutte, et le 30 Prairial de l'année suivante (18 juin 1799) ^^ corps législatif prit sa revanche contre le Directoire."

1. 25. on les assassinait. The royalist bands organized throùghout the south of France after the downfall of Robespierre took the name of compagnies de yéhu, or compagnies du soleil, and murdered ail persons suspected of holding republican views.