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4. Jourdan, surnamed Coupe -Tête {head-chopper), was, as his nick-name implies, one of the most blood-thirsty Revolutionists. He was guillotined in 1794.

Page 31. — 1. Gare à la lanterne, beware of the lamp-post, or street-lamp. This was a threat of hanging, because in those exciting days, men were often hanged with the ropes from which the streetlamps were suspended.

2. The Street Saint-Honoré passes near the north side of the Tuileries.

3. Sans-culottes {without breeches) was a nick-name applied by the Royalists to the Revolutionists, because, instead of wearing knee-breeches, as the aristocrats did, they wore trousers. The Republicans made it a synonym of patriot.