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Pagr^ S0« — I. les on-dit. See page 47, note i. 2. qui n'y entendait pas malice = candid; lit., " who did not understand (there was any) trick in the thing."

Pagre 81. — I vieillards sans énergie. The Parisian dcputies to Tours were two men of advanced âge ; Glais-Bizoin, 70 years old, and Crëmieux, 74. Hence this reproach of the Parisians against the whole of the Assembly.

2. menées, intrigues^- — orléaniste^ i.e. in f avor of the descendants of King Louis Philippe, of the House of Orléans, who was called to the throne of France after the flight of the Bourbon King Charles X., and reigned 1 830-1 848.

3. Jacquerie, a peasant rébellion headed by Guillaume Caillet, nick named Jacques Bonhomme, which ravaged France in 1357.

Pagre 82. — i. cassar ... le nez = to butter up j lit., " to swing tbe incense-box so vigorously before us as to break it against our noses."

Pagre 85« — i. le cochon c'est la paix, a parody of Napoléon III.'s famous déclaration : V empire c'est la paix,

Paçe 86. — I. la représentation municipale, i. e., that towns should be managed by councils elected by themselves. The original Commune of Paris was in fact a Revolutionary Committee which sprang f rom the riot of July 14, 1789 (when the Bastille was captured by the people) and substituted itself for the regular town council, hitherto made up of members of the city guilds, or trade-corporations. It opposed the Convention, claimed to assume the management of the aff airs of the nation, and kept up a permanent insurrection in the streets of Paris till it f ell with Robespierre, July 27, 1794. Since then, the advocates of separate local govemment and indeed of extrême revolutionary measures in gênerai, hâve adopted the name of the Commune as their rallying cry.

Page 87. — i. Pancienne gauche. (See page 10, note 4), i. e., the tnembers of the opposition under the Empire. For the facts referred to, see chap. II, § i. La nouvelle {gauche) » the*new opposition.

2. ne se firent pas tantei did notfail; lit., **did not make a lack to themselves of . . .*'

Page 88. — i. sur la place [de V Hôtel de Ville\ the square outside,