à tous égards, in every respect

1. 25. M. de Staël, Swedish ambassador to the court of France ; resided in Paris till 1799 ; died in 1802.

1. 28. des religieux de V ordre de la Trappe. The Trappists were monks belonging to the Cistercian order ; they originally resided at the abbey of La Trappe in the department of l'Orne.

1. 31. se les renvoyait = les renvoyait à soi, sent them backwards and forwards to one another.

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1. 4. comte de Jaitcourt (Arnail- François) [1757 — 1852], held various political offices under the Empire and the reign of Louis XVIII. See an article on him in Messrs Haag's La France Protestante. Madame de Staël had already saved him from being put to death after the events of August loth.

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1. 7. Moret, or Morez, a small town in the department of Jura, hear the Swiss frontier.

1. 8. du mont Jura (L. Juratus or yurassus mons), a chain of mountains extending between France and Switzerland.

1. II. JVyon (L. Noviodunmn, Noviojnagus, Colonia equestris), a small town in the Canton de Vaud, on the borders of the lake of Geneva.

L 15. de la réquisition, required for military service. Réquisition means a demand made by the government for a supply of men, provisions, money, etc.; the adjective militaire is hère understood. The levéi en masse decreed in 1793 by the Committee of public safety was called réquisition permanente.

I. 16. V armée de Condé, the army of émigrés organized as early as 1789, on theFrench frontier, by Louis Joseph, prince de Condé (1736 — 1838).