débris de la Gironde. See above, note to p. i

1. 12. qui lui faisait voir = qui faisait voir par lui. He had a Personal spite against Robespierre, who turned him out of the club of the Jacobins on account of the immorality of his writings.

1.14. Louvet de Couvray {^ç^'2C!\^2cç\x%\.€) \\l^o — 1797]. After the death of the dictator he returned to his seat in the Convention, and was elected as a member of the council of five hundred.

112 CONSIDÉRATIONS, â^c. [chap. v.

1. i8. qui a fait le malheur de la vie de y ean- Jacques (Rousseau). The eccentricities, the suspicious nature and misanthropie disposition of that celebrated writer [17 12 — 1778] account for many of the paradoxes scattered throughout his works.

1. ■21. tenaient d'abord^ resulted, in the first place, from the fact.

1. 23. il se mêlait de mauvais mouvements — de mauvais mouvements se mêlaient. See above, note to p. 14, 1. 29. Mouvements hère means impulses. Thus again :

" Qui pourra croire que les Épicuriens eussent des mouvements de prier Dieu?" (Pascal.)