Comité de sûj-eté générale, see La Législative, note

40. Ltixernbuj'g — Saint Lazare, — aux Ecossais — la Bourse. Besides the Revolutionary prisons mentioned in La Législative, note 25, the palace of the Luxemburg, built for Marie de Médicis, in 1612, the hospital of Saint Lazare, datingback to the XI. century, the séf?iinai7'e des Ecossais, founded by Philippele-Bel, rebuilt in 1662 for the Catholics of Great Britain, the old Bourse, etc., were transformed into prisons.

41. Sections, the subdivisions of the Commune of Paris created in 1790. Their power lasted until the famous 13^ Vendémiaire (sth of October), 1795, when the troops of the Convention, under the command of Bonaparte, entirely

roiited the sections and put an end to the commune. The above date is known as the Day of the Sections.

42. Hors la loi, mett7'e hors la loi, to outlaw. When this sentence has been pronounced, no further trial is necessary beyond the identification of the person who is forthwith executed.

43. K la place de la Révolution. The présent Place de la Concorde, which, down to the Révolution, was known as the Place Louis XV,, from a statue of that king erected after the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748). On the iith of Aug., 1792, the day after the capture of the Tuileries, the statue of the king was renioved and melted down, and a terra-cotta figure of the Goddess of Liberty placed on its pedestal. Hère the guillotine stood until the end of the Révolution, and hère perished most of its illustrions victims. The présent name was bestowed upon it in 1799, and revived in 1830. The obelisk of Luxor now stands where Louis XVI. was executed.

44. Une table. This table, which was formerly in the cabinet of Louis XVI., is now preserved with its blood-stains in the National Archives at Paris, with many other interesting relies of the Révolution, among them the document, an address to the Sections, which Robespierre was in the act of signing when the Hôtel de Ville was captured by the troops of the Convention. Robespierre had signed the first two letters of his name when he stopped and shot himself, his blood spirting upon the paper where the rest of his name should hâve followed.