à la hauteur des circonstances, equal to the ce canon

7. les hommes du 14 juillet. This was the date of the fall of the Bastille.

Pag^e 32. — i. tribunes, galleries. Hère, those who occupied the galleries.

2. The famous Déclaration des Droits de VHomme was inscribed at the head of the Constitution of 1791 and proclaimed the equality of ail citizens and the sovereignty of the people. The idea originated with La Fayette.

3. Thèse were intended to ridicule the Royalists. See note 3, page 31.

4. The Carrousel was an open square just east of the Tuileries.