les aigrit-elle; elle hère is redundant

1. 8. se faire honneur=faire honneur à eux-mêmes, obtain crédit.

1. II. il se mêla des Royalistes = des Royalistes se mêlèrent. See above, note to p. 22, 1. 23.

1. 25. Les sections de Paris. Paris had been divided into fortyeight sections in 1790. On the municipal and military organization of the capital of France during the Révolution, see M. Mortimer Ternaux' excellent Histoire de la Terreur, Vol. i. pp. 331 and foll. "La division en 48 sections," says this historian, "toujours avec les mêmes circonscriptions, a subsisté depuis 1790 jusqu'en 1860; elle n'a été détruite que par l'annexion des communes suburbaines situées en deçà des nouvelles fortifications : seulement, le nom de section, qui rappelait de fâcheux souvenirs, avait été remplacé depuis longtemps par celui de

ÎI4 CONSIDÉRATIONS, ^-c. [char vi.

quartier. " The Sections contained the most violent members of the Revolutionary party, and, following the traditions of the Commune, naturally resented the loss of influence which would resuit from the establishment of the Directory.

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1. 7. Cromwell. It is said that Cromwell intended to leave for America before the Long Parliament assembled, but was stopped by the government. This is probably untrue. There is more ground for believing that he said, after the passing of the Grand Remonstrance, that if it had net passed, he would hâve left England for ever.

1. 33. un décret du 1 Brumaire (October i\). The report on this decree was drawn up by Tallien.