Comme . . . , i.e. ' How wide-awake

44. Au printemps de 1793. The situation, says Michelet, was despepate botii in Paris, in Lyon», in Liège, and througbont the whole of Belgiom, wliere our army, pressed on every aide by the enemy, stood in danger of being slaughtered by the peasantry. And, to crown ail, only half the danger was known. On the 3rd of Mardi was lifted the veil wliicb covered the dark and far-rearhing conspiracy of the insurgents of Brittany. The Vendean war broke ont on the lOth.

46. des Oirondins. The name given to a political party, whieh formed a section of the second National Assembly of France, called the Léuislative, in contradiatinction to the first nr Constituante, which framed the constitution of 17!)1. In the 3rd assembly, called l.'imvention Nationale, they became the Modcrate party as oppoaed to the Montagne or extremists. Ita

Notes to Chapter I.

members were arrested on the 2nd of June, 1793, by order of the Montaftne or Terrorist party, headed by Dauton, Kobespierre, and Ma^at. Twentyone of tbeir members were executed on tbe 2i8t of October, including the most illnstrioas of them — the orator Vergnlaud.

46. Bonnennit ia on the north-east sicle of Jersey. The water is very deep in the bay, whioh is now piovided with a hnrbour especially for tbe benefit of the Ùshiiig community of that part of tbe island.

47. était monté par . . ., ' wa^ manned by . . .' The Btjyalist insurernts of Brittany and La Vt-iidée had implored Englifh aid Hgainst the Republic. It ha'l bcen nrraiiged that an English fle< t would hoLI itself in readinesa tolttiid an important force or the Kreuch coiist, soiuevvhere between Grau- Telle ana St. Malo, as socm as thi' insnrrectionary forces were in possessioii of a |wrt of the cmist in snHicient numiiers to pmtLCt the laudiii<;. Cf. Alp. Daudet's La Belle Nivemaise (.lenkius's édition), p. 13, 1. 14: et monté par un équipage un peu chouette, ' and manned by a smartish crew too.'