lo. bonne élocution, that neatness of speech

1. 13. d^tine desce7ite des Anglais > War was declared against England by the Revolutionary government on the ist of Feb. 1793.

1. 15. Claude Fetiet (1749 — 1808) became a senator under the Empire.

1. 21. Rennes (L. Condate^ Redonœ) formerly the capital of the pro-, vince of Brittany, now chief town of the department of Ile et Vilaine.

1. 23. dirigé sur Orléans, sent on to Orléans (L. Aurelianum^ Gena^ buf?i), chief town of the department of Loiret.

la chute de Robespierre. Maximilien Marie Isidore de Robespierre, b. at Arras in 1758, died on the scaffold in Paris, July 28th, 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.

1. 3. ignare, grossly ignorant ; is a much stronger expression than ignorant.

1. 7. faisant T Argus, acting the part of an Argus. 1. 12. le mouvement, life.