entre autres, in the présence of other persons

1. 12. au moment oîi, etc. The Revolutionary Tribunal was proposed by Carrier, on March 9, 1793, and was organized and established in a single sitting on March 10. It was a summary tribunal for trying ail persons suspected of hostility to the Republic. It took the place of a weaker tribunal established for the same purpose in Aug. 1792.

1. 27. il ne lui venait pas seulement dans T esprit .. .qtie Von pût s^ attendre à sa résistance, it did not even occur to him...that any one could expect him to resist. // hère is a neuter pronoun. S'attendre =■ compter sur.

1. 29. laisse ignorer, shews on the part of the person concerned an ignorance.

1. 31. trempé, literally dipped; been mixed up in (L. temperaré).

1. 32. Lebon (Joseph) [1765 — 1795] established the reign of Terror at Arras, his native place. Condemned to death after Thermidor, he was guillotined on the 9th of October. When he had to put on the red shirt previous to ascending the scaflfold, he uttered the mémorable words : "ce n'est pas moi qui dois l'endosser; il faut l'envoyer à la Convention dont je n'ai fait qu'exécuter les ordres." Carrier (Jean Baptiste) [1756 — 1 794], "l'un des hommes les plus sanguinaires de la Révolution." (Bouillet.) The cruelty of which he was guilty at Nantes in 1793 is well known.

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1. I. physionomie means hère not features, but gênerai appearance.