CHAPITRE IL (XVIL

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1. 19. foudroyé par les Anglais. The famous épisode of the ship Le Vengeur, celebrated by the poet Lebrun, is known to be apocrypha,! in many of its détails; itjook place in 1794.

1. 27. Dugommier (Jean François Coquille) [1736 — 1794], distinguished by his humanity as well as by his courage. Napoléon Bonaparte served under him at the siège of Toulon.

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1. I . des habits usés par la guerre. Béranger has said : "Ces habits bleus par la victoire usés."

1. 3. chamarrés, bedizened, bedecked ; from chamarre, embroidery (Spanish chamarra).

1. 5. résistèrent avec courage atc gouvernement conventionnel ; in 1793. The principal towns which ofFered résistance were Bordeaux, Mavseilles, Toulon and Lyons. "The military portion of the enterprise, although the only vital one, made but slow progress. The whole movement was, in fact, purely civil, and the most zealous leaders, therefore, were not likely from their âge, their wealth, and the nature of their occupation, to be of a particularly warlike character...there was an entire want of unity and suprême control over ail the |)\ovinces, as well as

I02 CONSIDÉRATIONS, à^c. [chap. il

of a political bond to keep together the différent parties, who, for the présent, only agreed in their abhorrence of the Jacobins. In short, the success of the moderate party in an armed collision was, from the beginning, by no means certain." (Von Sybel, m. 88.)