la machine infernale, on the 24th of December, i8oo

1. 18. les Chouans. This was the name originally given to the insurgents in La Vendée, who signalled to each other by imitating the cry of an owl (chat-huant). It was afterwards applied, like the titles Whig and Tory, also originally local names, to the extrême members of the party in gênerai.

1, 20. cent trente révolutionnaires. The sentence of transportation was signed on the 4th of January, 1801.

1.29. s" étaient fait alors le bizarre principe = avaient fait à eux-mêmes, had made, established, or set up for themselves the odd principle.