susceptibilité, irritability

dans un sens d"" ornement, with a view to polish ..perfectionnement, improvement.

1. 25. Denis Fabre, one of the deputies to the National Convention, member for the department of Hérault.

1. 26. Nouga7'ède, a littérateur of very little merit, is not even mentioned in the Biographie universelle,

P. II, 1. I. garde-côtes. M. Littré (see Dictionary, s. v. gardé) thinks that the plural of this compound substantive, and likewise of garde-note, should be spelt as it is here. The Académie Française on the contrary gives both gardes- côtes and gardes-notes,

1 1. commissaire des guerres, victualling-commissioner.

1. 5. Gabriel Marie de Talleyrand, comte de Périgord (1726 — 1795).

1. 7. suppression des Parlements, The French parliaments were suppressed by decree dated November 7, 1790. The crisis alkided to here is the one caused by the financial measures which Louis XVI. adopted at the suggestion of the minister Loménie de Brienne (1727 — ^794).

lui reconnut— reconnut en lui.