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1. 13. (Pune descente des Anglais* War was declared against Englaiid by the Reyolutionary govemment on the ist of Feb. 1793.

L 15. Claude Fetiet (1749 — 1808) became a senator under tlie Empire.

Lai. Rennes (L. Condate^ Redona) formerly the capital of the province of Brittany, now chief town of the department of Ile et Vilaine.

L 23. dirigé sur Orléans, sent on to Orléans (L. Aurelianum, Gênahum), chief town of the department of Loiret

la chute de Robespierre. Maximilien Marie Isidore de Robespierre, b. at Arras in 1758, died on the scafibld in Paris, July aSth, 1794 (Thermidor 10, year II.)

P. 18, 1. I. assignat. The assignats were created by decree dated December i9th, 1 789, and constituted a kind of paper currency, the amount of which was assigned on the property of the crown and of the church.

!• 3< ignare, grossly ignorant ; is a much stronger expression than igttorant,

L 7. faisant t Argus, acting the part of an Aigus.

L 13. le mouvement, lîfe.

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