Petit-gendre, his granddaughter's husband

33. La jeune captive. Rioland, in his édition of Chénier's Works, says : La jeune captive était une demoiselle Franquetot de Coigny, qui avait épousé le duc de Fleury en 1784, et qui, incarcéré à Saint-Lazare avec M. de Montrond, devint, après divorce, Mme. de Montrond. Montrond et la citoyenne Franquetot (ex-duchess de Fleury) furent effacés de la liste des prétendus conspirateurs moyennant une somme de cent louis en or.

34. Philomele, the daughter of Pandion, king of Attica, who had another daughter, Procne, whom he gave in marriage to Tereus, king of the Thracians. Tereus became by lier the father of Itys, and then concealed her in the country, that he might marry her sister, Philomela, whom he deceived by saying that Procne was dead. At the same time, he deprived Philomela of her tongue. Philomela, however, soon leamed ^he truth, and made it known to her sister, by a few words which she wove into a peplus. Procne thereupon killed her own son, Itys, and served up the flesh of the child in a dish before Tereus. She then fled with her sister. Tereus pursued them v/ith an axe, and, when the sisters were overtaken, they prayed to the gods to change them into birds. Procne, accordingly, became a nightingale, Philomela a swallow, and Tereus a hoopoo. According to some, Procne became a swallow, Philomela a nightingale, and Tereus a hawk who still pursues the fleeing sisters.

35. Pales. Pales, a Roman divinity of flocks and shepherds ; described by some as a maie, and by others as a female, divinity. The festival of Pales was celebrated, at Rome, on the 2ist of April.

36. Les tricoteuses de la société fraternelle. The Convention pass©d. a law admitting to its sessions wives with their husbands and children, and permitting them to knit there. The Word tricoteuses is applied, in a wider sensé, to the habituées of the popular assemblies and the Revolutionary tribunal, as well as of the public exécutions.

37. Ridicules. The proper spelling of the word is réticule [Lat. reticuluîu, dim. of rete, net]. Littré says it was the naine given under the Directory to the little bags which women carried with them, and which was corrupted into ridicules. He cites a passage from Decourchamp, Souvenirs de la marquise de Créqtii, t. ix., ch. v. : Je vous ai déjà dit que les femmes avaient repris l'usage des sacs à ouvrage que les antiquaires appellent réticules, attendu que ceux des dames romaines étaient formés en filet de réseau ; mais les bourgeoises qui les portent disent toujours des ridicules.

38. Les Troqueurs de la Fontaine. The title of one of La Fontaine's Contes (IV. , 3), in which two peasants grow tired of their wives and propose an exchange ; in time, one of them tires of his new wife and wants the old one back, and begins a suit against the other peasant.