CHAP. IV.] NOTES

"C'est une dame Qui de quelque espérance avait flatté ma flamme."

(Molière, le Misanthrope.)

1. 24. y ai causé. Causer (L. causari\ to plead a cause, to discuss ; hence, to chat.

1. 25. Artois. Towards the end of last century, the province of Artois comprised the territory formerly occupied by the Atrebates, and part of that inhabited by the Morini. In 1791 it became the department of Pas de Calais : chief town, Arras.

1. 27. (Tune couleur verte: the **sea-green" Robespierre, as Carlyle calls him.