un enlèvement, a flight [lit. an elopement

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23. 34. un exempt, a police-officer ; thus called because tbe

iion-commissioned cavalry officers who commanded in the absence of the officers, and -were for that reasou ' exempted ' from drill, were in charge of the sqnads of guards proceeding to arrests, and therefore the term became a})plied to any ' arresting officer.'

35. une lettre de cachet à la main-, a royal Avarrant in his hand (an arbitrary order of imp)risonnient or exile). Royal letters nnder the Great Seal were also called lettres de cachet, but not in the singular.

24. 5. A la Bastille. This fortress, chiefly known as a Paris

state prison, dated from the reigns of Charles V. and Charles VI. at the end of the fourteenth centuiy (1369-83). It was taken and destroyed by the peoiDle of Paris, 14th-15th July 1789.