Comité de surveillance, see "La Législative," note

40. Théâtres d' enrôlemeut, recruiting offices. During the enthusiastic voluntary enlistments of the year 1792, amphithéâtres were erected in the public squares, with officers appointed by the Assembly to receive and register the volunteers.

41. Clamart, so-called from a hôtel in the Rue des Fossés- Saint-Marcel, on the site of which it was opened.

42. Garde-meuble, the place where the sovereign's personal effects, furniture, etc., were kept.

43. L'Autrichienne et son beau-frère, the epithet Autrichienne was applied to Marie- Antoinette as early as her marriage to Louis XVI., then the dauphin ; but during the Révolution it became the expression of the hatred of the French people for the absolutism which was characteristic of the Austrian government. The beau-frère alluded to was the Comte d'Artois, afterward Charles X.

44. Toits les juges du Châtelet qui avaient voté pour le renvoi de Bézenval, Pierre Victor, baron de, 1 722-1 791, was son of a colonel in the Swiss Guards, and rose by favor to the

highest rank. In 1789 he was entrusted with the command of the troops around Paris, but showed unexampled timidity and incapacity. He took to flight on the I4th of July, was arrested, brought before the tribunal of the Châtelet, and through court intrigues pronounced innocent. He died in obscurity at Paris, leaving memoirs published in 1806, full of scandalous anecdotes and indiscreet révélations.

45. Brunswick, Charles William Ferdinand, duke of (i735- 1806), distinguished himself during the Seven Years* War, and after the déclaration of Pilnitz (see " La Législative," note 4), was named commander-in-chief of the allied armies. He published, before invading France, the celebrated manifesto of Coblentz, 25th of July, 1792. It consisted of eight articles, in which the French were insolently summoned to submit to their king, and dire vengeance was threatened ail those who ofîered him violence or opposed the progress of the allied armies. The duke entered France and took Longwy and Verdun, but was defeated at Valmy. He resigned his command in 1794. In 1806 he resumed command of the Prussian troops, and was mortally wounded at Auerstaedt.