mettre hors de, deprive of

Page 119. — 1. His real name was Henry Essex. He was a native of Edgeworthstown in Ireland. He became the confessor of the Princess Elizabeth in 1777. After her death in May, 1794, he accompanied Louis XVIII on his journeys and died in Russia in 1807. The rue du Bac is just across the Seine from the Tuileries.

2. Fournier was called V Ame'ricain because he had been a soldier in the West Indies for thirteen years. For Jourdan see note 4, page 30.

Page 120. — 1. gens de bien, honestmen; see note 1, page 98 ; l'emporte sur, prevails over.

2. On this and the four following days, hired assassins murdered most of the occupants of the prisons of Paris in order to get them out of the way. The prisoners were generally supposed to be well disposed towards the king. The number is variously estimated at from 4000 to 7000.

Page 123. — i. After meilleure supply vie.

- Page 125. — I. incriminées, regarde d as criminal.

Page 1 26.— 1. s'aiguisaient (u sounded), broke out sharply% shrill.

Page 127. — 1. After yeux and lèvres supply e'puisés.

Page 129. — i. c'en est fait, it is ah over with. 2. les saints mystères refers to the mass.

Page 130. — i. According to the belief of the Egyptians, the soûl of the departed descends into the realm of shadows where it is obliged to undergo an examination before the judges of the dead, Osiris, Horus, Anubis, and Thoth.