prairial ; cf. p

114. 22. Au fond de la toile, 'at the background of tbe picture ' (literally * the canvas.')

' 121.— 15. le 13 vendémaire (5tb of Oct. 1795). On tbat day. Napoléon dispersed, with a terrible cannonade, the National Guard, as it attempted, 30,000 strong, to force its way into the Tuileries, where the Convention was sitting.

16. le 18 fructidor (4tb of Sept. 1797). On tbat day three raembers of the Directory, by a coup d*état, making Barras dictator, saved the republic from the machinations of the Boyalists. This coup d'état was executed by Augereau, one of tbe most brilliant and intrepid of Napoléon 's gênerais.