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1. 9. Le règne de la Terreur may be said to hâve begun in Angust 1 793, when Robespierre became Président of the Convention, or at any rate in the sitting of Sept. 5, when 'Terror' was formally adopted as the means of maintaining the Révolution.

1. 13. farouche (L. ferocem), untamed. The idea expressed by faroîiche is not quite so strong as that conveyed hy féroce, because it is consistent with a degree of shyness which the latter adjective does not imply.

1. 14. Machiavélisme* "...Les grands principes du Machiavélisme: ruinez qui pourrait un jour vous nuire; assassinez votre voisin qui pourrait devenir assez fort pour vous tuer." (Voltaire.) The principles of Machiavelli were expressed in his book "The Prince," in which the . art of despotism, as practised in Italy in his day, was reduced to a science.

1.25. aux passions de ceux qui gouvernent. "Quel est le principe du socialisme?... C'est de régler souverainement non seulement la vie sociale ou publique de l'individu, mais sa vie privée... de lui faire sa religion, sa philosophie, sa conscience." (Vinet.)

1. 28. d'environ quinze mois, July 28, 1794 — October 27, 1795.

1. 30. quoiqu'il se soit... commis, although many crimes were committed. // is hère a neuter pronoun, and its verb is hère used, according to the idiom of fréquent occurrence, impersonally.

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