un roi. David, King of Israel

14. se passer de thé. A reference to the "Boston Teaparty" in 1773, when a number of young men, incensed by the failure of the English to repeal the tax on tea, boarded three English vessels in Boston harbor and threw overboard their cargo of tea.

239. — I. défendit Louis XVI. Thomas Paine became a member of the French Convention which condemned Louis XVI; he favored imprisonment rather than the death penalty.

25. l'Eglise anglicane. The Anglican Church or Church of England broke away from Roman Catholicism at the time of Henry VIII; it is the official church of England.

241. — I. La phraséologie de Rousseau est seule employée. Note the influence of Rousseau on the American Declaration of Independence.