en baissant la voix : cf. perdre la vue, la vie

85. I. punie de . . : so récompenser de, blâmer de, louer de.

remercier de, etc.

21. quand éclata la Révolution : the States- General, which had not met since 1614, assembled at Versailles on May 5, 1789. As the clergy and the nobles refused to give the Third Estate its due weight, the deputies of the

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bourgeoisie assumed the title of National Constituent Assembly, and decided not to separate until they had drawn iip a constitution. The other two orders then yielded, but foreign troops being called out by the court to overawe the deputies, the people rose up in arms and destroyed the Bastille on the i4th of July. Thus began the Révolution, but it was only on September 21, 1792, that the Republic was proclaimed by the Convention.

86. 23. jusqu'à nouvel ordre : lit. ' until further orders ' ; say ' for the time being." la Terreur : the term is applied to the period from the fall of the Girondists (May 31, 1793) to the fall of Robespierre (July 27, or Thermidor 9, 1794).