L'ancien—Old fellow

Avait un petit coup de trop—Had had a glass too much.

Des Droits de l'homme, de la déesse Raison, et du Maximum.—For Droits de l’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 10th of November, 1793, and called Ze Culte de la Raison. On this occasion the goddess of Réason was represented in flesh and blood by the wife of the printer Momore. - Loi du Maximum was the name given to various laws voted by the Convention in 1798, fixing the maximum price for grain, etc.

Citoyenne.—Here equivalent to republican (woman). The words citoyen and citoyenne had replaced the words monsieur, madame, and mademoiselle at this period of the Revolution.

111. Une et indivisible.—The Convention issued a decree on the 25th of September, 1792, proclaiming the French Republic une et indivisible, in order to remove all idea of federation.

112. Schague.— German, Schlag, a blow; schlague means the flogging administered to soldiers in the German arnies and introduced in France in 1756, when a company of caporauxæ schlagueurs, flogging corporals, was established. It was abolished at the time of the Revolution.

Sans-culottes.—Literally, without breeches ; this term was applied to the 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 general then operating against the French ; died in 1797.

113. Au premier étage—In the second story. See note to p. 50.

IT y a de la ressource—Something can be done. This very idiomatie expression will seem clear if the primitive sense of ressource is kept in mind. Ressource, from 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 ; wn homme de ressource is a man who is never at à loss. ÂAvoid any stereotyped transiation for any such expression. Z{ ya de la ressource avec les gens d'esprit —One can get along with sensible people.

Se sauvent—Will run away ; subjunctive after je ne crois pas.

114, Tenes— Look.

115, Bassesse. — Abjection, or inferior condition.