s'en mêlaient, ' were in the secret

18. 7 messidor, an III. (i.e. 7th of Âugust, year IIL, of the new

calendar). Messidor was the 'harvest month.' Atter the Bevulutiou the namusof the nionths January, February, etc., were chunged, and tliey were styled according to the variations of température and tlie agrii-ultural opérations which took place in them : viz,, niv6»e, pluviôse, frvuiUdor, menstc/or, etc.

19. Cette guerre, mon père l'a fàite. Victor Hugo's father at the time was serving uniler Hoobe.

20. du Bocage. On starting from Nantes and S,.umur, and travelling from the Loire to the Sables u'Olonne, Luçon, Fnutenay, and Nivot, says Thiers, you traverse an unequal and undulating tiaoi of couutry, eut with ravines, and crossed in every seurc by a multitude of hedgi s which serve as boundary to each field, and wuicu bas given to tbis district the name of Bocage.

21. Le décret de la levée. The levy had beeu decreed on the 24lh of February, 1793, to make head against the new coalition of the powera against France.