loges, boxes (of a théâtre

12. Allusions to the dethronement and death of Louis XVI. (1792), and the institution of worship of the Goddess Reason (1793).

14. le tigre : thèse are prsctically the words of the Terrorists of the French Révolution.

17. il y a cinq ans, i.e. 1789, before the out break of the French Révolution. ' On dansait sur un volcan.'