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3. hoc erat in votis (Horace, Sat. II. 6, 1. i ) = this was my ambition. The Latin poet goes on to ask for a bit of land, not over large, etc.

Page 45. — i . vaudevilliste, playwright. The Vaudeville is a light comic play.

Page 47. — i. on-dit, rumors.

Page 48. — i. 93. In 1793, the French govemment (established under the name of Convention Nationale on September 21, 1792) executed Louis XVI. and his family, declared war upon England, Hol-

land, and Spain, raised an army of 300,000 men and instituted revolutionary forces that carried La Terreur everywhere.

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