des conditions de propriété, conditions of property

1. 4. deux degrés d'élection, i.e. the élection of deputies was not made directly by the people, but by bodies of electors, themselves elected for this purpose.

1. 6. pour relever les choix, to raise the character of the sélections. On the constitution of the year III, see Thiers' Histoire de la Révohttion.

1. 7. un Directoire. The Directors were to be selected by the Ancients from a list of ten presented by the Five Hundred.

1. 21. ils avaient tenu = ils avaient été attachés. Thus again: ^'' Nous tenons tous à un certain monde qui nous environne."

(Massllloh, Carême.)

1. 23. Von jeta, etc. According to the fable, two serpents were sent by Juno to destroy the infant Hercules in his cradle, but he strangled both. Mad. de Staël means that on this occasion the serpents were too many for the infant Republic, and strangled it.

1. 26. à ses successeurs. The national assembly decided that none of its members should be re-eligible to the next législature.