trains, hère ' trains * of beats or rafts

25. Nièvre and Toxme, confluences of the Loire and the Seine, respectively,

J^52 KOTES.

»yg,14. st. Domingo, or Hayti, îiad suffered greatly throaglx internai révolutions.

17. le fort de la Halle, * porter, sack-carrier.* 30. Danton (175»-Ô4), with Marat and Robespierre, one of the leaders of tlie extrême revolutionary party, and, like his associâtes, of a cruel and corrupt nature, but capable of mucli beroic audacity.

»y 9.-12. YiUeroi, witli Fleury the educator of Louis XV. ^Q.— 3. le bataillon des Enfants-Trouvés formed a part of the National Guard (the name because this battalion was made up of young men once foundlings).

16. sans-culotte, 'sans- culotte' (i.e. *breechless fellow),* name of reproach given to the extrême republican party, as some think» because they used pantaloons instead of the aristocratie breeches, or according to others, because that name was first applied to the women who had forced their way into the Assembly.

25. V Américain, because he had served as volunteer in Hayti. 32. On the 6th of October, 1798, the royal family, amidst great crowds, went f rom Versailles to Paris.

^\, 7. Rossignol was made commander in the expédition

against the revolters of Vendée.