le dessus, ' the ranstery

33. jacobin (t.e. partisan of the Bevolution of 1789), or, more proporly, of the (institution of 1791. The name oî jacobin was given to the membera of the first popular soclety, established in 1790, in the ancient couvent of the Jacobins at Paris, and closed on the 24th of July, 1794. The Jacobin party was firat composed of partisims of the constitutinnal governmeut ; but tliese detached tliemselves from it in 1791, after the joumey ot King lx)uis XVI. to Varennes, and only the most fîery démagogues remaiued members of it, nntil its suppression in 1794.

84. quelqu'un de haut, ' sume towering figure.' 86, il eatendaiti ' he meant to.'

86. par détrousser une diligence, 'by robbing a ooach.' Détrousser is

properly to take off the bretches {trousse, a bimdle of things tied togetber). Cf, Il est & ses trowses, ' He ia iii liot pursnit.'

87. ta Boohejaquelein. See note 58, ch, iii. p. 195. . . . Jean Chouan. . . See note 65, ch, vi. p. 210.

88. l'appuyer, ' to n st him.' Fui ia from podium (a baloony, in Pliny : a base, pedestal, in other writers). Appuyer is, therefore, to support by the help of something, a pui ur prop. 'l liat podium pi'oduoed pui, as ftodte bas Jiui (in anjourd'Aut), as modium, muid (st cask), as i% odio. en- %ui, by attraction of the Latin i, is perfectly certain.