Ourdit une fuite clandestine, arranged a secret flight

Ourdir [Lat. ordiri, to begin] means literally to weave, with tj'anie and complot metaphorically to weave, to hatch a plot.

97. M. Louis Bourbon, the French royal line from Henri IV. (1589-1610) to Charles X. (1824-1830, died 1836) is called Bourbon from a family possessing the seigneury of Bourbon, a small town in the old province of Bourbonnais, now the department Allier. The town now known as Bourbon l' Archambault, or Bourbon-les-Bains, was called by the Romans Aquœ Bormonis, and in the Middle Ages Borbo or Borbo Archembaldi. The heiress of the house — Béatrice — married, in 1272, Robert, the sixth son of St. Louis. Their great-grandson John, Count de la Marche, married Catharine, heiress of Vendôme, and from this union sprang at a later day the dukes of V., the second of whom, Antoine, married Jeanne d' Albret, Queen of Navarre, and became the father of Henri IV. The French royal Bourbon line became extinct in (1883), by the death, without issue, of Henri, duke of Bordeaux, better known as the Comte de Chambord (" Henri V."), the grandson of Charles X.

98. Z' ord?-e du Saint-Esprit, order instituted by Henri III. in 1576, and composed of onehundred members, not including foreign ones, The device of the order was Duce et auspice. It was suppressed, as is stated in the text, in 1791, and reestablished in 18 16, by Louis XVIII. The order was not conferred after the révolution of July, 1830.

l'assemblée législtive.

1. Montagnards. — Name given to the members of the '*' Convention," whose seats were to the left of the presiding officer, and on the highest tiers. They had ultra-radical views on politics. Among the most prominent were the two Robespierres, Marat, Lebas, Couthon, Fréron, Danton, Billaud- Varennes, etc.

2. Girondins. — Name given to a party in the " Législative " and the *' Convention," the most remarkable members of which came from the department of Gironde. After the September massacres they opposed the " Terreur," but, accused of plotting against the Republic, Robespierre had them apprehended, and twenty of them died on the scafïold (October 31, I793)' The most prominent members of this party were Lanjuinais, Barbaroux, Roland, Pétion, Isnard, Dumouriez, and Vergniaud.

3. Contre les prêtres non assermentés. On the 24th of July, 1790, the National Assembly adopted the Civil Constitution of the Clergy (see p. 84), which entirely revolutionized the Church in France, making priests and bishops élective, and destroying the papal jurisdiction. When the Civil Constitution was carried into opération, two thirds of the clergy refused to obey it. Whereupon the Ecclesiastical Committee brought a motion before the Assembly, to require every ecclesiastic to take the oath to the Civil Constitution within eight days, and, in case of refusai, to pronounce his déposition, and to prosecute

him as a disturber of the peace in case he continuée! to exercise his spiritual functions.

4. Déclaration de Filnitz, a summer resort of the court of Saxony, seven miles from Dresden, on the Elbe. In the castle was held, 25th-27th of August, 1791, a meeting of sovereigns to consider the measures to be taken against the French Révolution. It was attended by the Emperor Leopold IL, Frederick William II. of Prussia, and the Count d'Artois, as well as by the future Emperor Francis, the future king of Prussia, Frederick William III. ; the French ex-Minister Calonne, and tlie Marquis Bouille. On the 27th of August, the Count d'Artois received the déclaration that Austria and Prussia considered the présent condition of the king of France the subject of the common interest of ail the sovereigns of Europe, that they hoped this interest would be recognized by those powers whose help was asked, and that they would not fail to act with those powers in putting the king of France in position to place upon a firm basis a form of monarchical govemment equally conducive to the rights of sovereigns and the good of the French nation. Meanwhile Austria and Prussia were to give the necessary orders to their troops, so that they might be in a condition to take active measures. This déclaration was considered by France as évidence of a European coalition, and led to the prolonged wars of the Republic and the Empire.

5. Dumou7'iez, Charles François, born 1739, entered the French army in 1757, and rose to the rank of major-general. At the outbreak of the Révolution, he joined the party of Mirabeau and the Jacobins, and was for a short time in 1792 minister of foreign affairs. He won the battle of Jemappes over the Austrians, and endeavored to save Louis XVI. He afterward wished to raise to the throne the Duke of Chartres, and lead his army against the Convention. His army, however,

abandoned him, and he took refuge with the Austrians. The rest of his life, until his death in 1823, was passed in exile.

6. Qu'elle ne savait phis ou elle en était, she no longer knew what she was about. Etre conjugated with en (the same word used with some verbs of motion, like s en aller) forms several idioms, in some of which the e7t communicates an idea of motion : Ou €7i êtes-vous ? How far hâve you got ? En êtes- -dous là ! Hâve you come to that !

7. Jacobins, niembers of the political club established in 1789 at Paris, which held its meetings in the convent of the Jacobins, as the Dominican monks were called from the chapel of St. James (Lat. yacobtis\ near which they settled in 12 18, The Jacobins were the ultra- revolutionists of the Révolution, and the name is now applied, irrespective of nationality, to the partisans of ultra-democratic ideas.

8. Bonnet rouge, the cap adopted by the revolutionists in 1793, and since then a symbol of the revolutionary spirit. Un bonnet rouge, a member of the revolutionary party.

9. Madame, the king's daughter ; v. n. 79, "La Constituante."