La Suède ayant reconnu, etc., in

1. 17. que la société de Paris. Que is hère a neuter pronoun, and a Latinismj it stands for quid; c'était vraiment... un spectacle bien bizarre, cette chose, savoir^ la société.

1. 18. de ses amis. De has hère the force of an ablative (L. ex amicis suis).

I. 21. à la tribune de la Convention. "On disait que Madame de Staël intercédait pour des émigrés; on prétendait qu'elle voulait faire rappeler Narbonne, Jaucourt et plusieurs autres. Legendre la dénonça formellement à la tribune." (Thiers.) Born in 1755, Legendre was a butcher by trade; he shewed at first the greatest enthusiasm for revolutionary principles, and played a prominent part in the excesses of the Terrorists, but he turned against Robespierre on the fatal Thermidor 9th, and shut up the club of Jacobins. His political conduct, says a biographer, was ** très-équivoque." He died in 1797.

1. 25. les jours de Décade; in the Republican calendar, every tenth day was set apart as a holiday.

I. 30. comme au temps de la Terreur. On the state of Paris society at that time, see Messrs de Goncourt's interesting Histoire de la Société Français pendant le Directoire.

1. 31. parti Jacobin, the extrême Revolutionary party, so called from the Jacobin Club, which led that party at the commencement of the Révolution : see above, p. 2, 1. 30.