CH.AP. I.] NOTES

1. 14. sans que r imagination ejt conserve. ^Sa^j ^?/^ always requires the subjunctive, not on account of the conjunction que, but because the verb belonging to the principal proposition implies doubt.

1. 19. on l'a mis en mesure, they hâve placed them in a position, they hâve given them the means.

1. 20. forfait is derived hoxa. forfaire (L. foris f acéré) — io do things contrary to what is right. Forfait, a crime, must not be confounded ■w'iih. forfait, a contract, a thing done at a settled price {L. forum factutn).

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1. 2. La classe soulevée en 1 789, etc. See de Tocqueville's P Ancien régime et la Révolution ; Edgar Quinet, la Révolution, vol. i. ; and Taine, les Origines de la France contemporaine, vol. i.

1. 8. se fussent montrées de même, would hâve done the same, lit. would hâve shown themselves in the same manner. The verb of the subordinate clause is alvvays put in the subjunctive, if the verb of the principal sentence is négative or interrogative. — de même {manière). Même hère is a real adjective (L. metipsissimus, the very sa?ne).

1. 10. en Hollande, etc. The Dutch Révolution, in which the Stadholdership was abolished and the Batavian Republic established, took place in Feb. 1795. The old constitution of Svi^itzerland was overthrown and the Helvetian Republic set up, under French influence, in April, 1798. The republican constitution was modified by Napoléon in 1803.