L'ancien — Old fellow
Avait un petit coup de ^rop— Had had a glass too mnch.
Des Droits de Vhomme, de la déesse Raison, et du Maximum.—Yov Droits de r homme see note to p. 20. La déesse Raison — the speaker alludes to a kind of worship decreed by the Commune of Paris, celebrated the lOth of Xovember, 1793, and called le Culte de la Raison. Ou this occasion the goddess of Reason was represeuted in flesh and blood by the wife of the printer Momore. Loi du Maximum was the name given to varions laws voted by the Convention in 1793, fixing the maximum price for grain, etc.
Citoyenne. — Hère équivalent to republican (woman). The words citoyen and citoyenne had replaced thewords monsieur, madame, and mademoiselle at this period of the Révolution.
111. Une et indivisible. — The Convention issued a decree on the 2oth of September, 1792, proclaiming the Frencli Republic une et indivisible^ in order to remove ail idea of fédération.
112. Schlague. — German, Scldag. a blow; schlague meansthe flogging administered to soldiers in the German arraies and introduced in France in 1756, when a company of caporaux schlagueurs, flogging corporals. was established. It was abolished at the time of ^he Révolution.
Sans-culottes. — Literally, without breeches : this term was applied to tlie patriotic republicans of 1793, who rejected the courtly knee-breeches for pantaloons : it became synonymous with good patriot, ardent republican.
Wurmser — Count von Wurmser. an Austrian gênerai then operating against the Freneh : died in 1797.
113. Au premier étage — In the second story. See note to p. 50.
Il y a de la ressource — Something can be done. This very idiomatic expression will seem clear if the primitive sensé of ressource is kept in mind. Ressource, frora the old verb resourdre, to rise again, is really a rising again, a means of overcoming a difficulty. Une ville de ressource is a town where everything is to be had : un homme de ressource is a man who is never at a loss. Avoid any stereotyped translation for any such expression. Il y a de la ressource avec les gens d^ esprit — One can get along with sensible people.
Se sauvent — Will run away ; subjunctive after je ne ci'oû pas.
214 XOTES.
