îijz ordre à part, a distinct, a separate order

1. 28. Depuis 1793, etc., i. e. from the Autumn of 1793, when Robespierre became suprême, to the spring of 1795, when a change of govemment became imminent.

1. 31. api'ès avoir reçu r accolade, after having received the hug. From accoler (from col, neck). ^^ Accolade,^ says Nicot (1604), "se fait en jetant les bras autour du col."

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1. 4. envoya des négociateurs à Lille. The letters on the Régicide peace were published in 1796, a short time after Burke's last severe attack of illness. (Edmund Burke, 1730 — 1797.) "Few persons can venture to say after the eventful expérience (of seventy years), when there has been such an opportunity of comparing fact with prophecy, that (on the subject of the French Révolution) he was wrong and his opponents right." (Macknight's Life of Burke.)