Page 195. See page

38. Page 195. A copy of this catalogue is still to be found in the library of the American Philosophical Society at Philadelphia. It is most interesting in showing the large number of foreign books offered for sale.

39. Page 196. This has référence to a pamphlet of fortyfour pages written by Moreau and awarded a prize by la Société Royale des Sciences et Arts du Cap-Français, July, 1790. Its title is as follows: Eloges de M. Turc de Castelveyre et de M. Doliules, Fondateurs des deux Hospices, appelés Maisons de Providence, an Cap-Français, Isle Saint-Domingue.

40. Page 196. Jean-Nicolas Démeunier (1715-1814) was deputy in Estâtes General in 1789 and later président of the Constituante. He remained in this country only about eight months. Several interesting entries are made in the diary in regard to him.

41. Page 196. Description topographique et politique de la partie espagnole de l'isle de St. Domingue was published at Philadelphia at Moreau's own press in 1796. Description de la partie française was published at the same press in 1798. It may hâve been from the manuscript of either that he was reading at this time, for the publication of the latter work was delayed through lack of funds.

42. Page 197. Later published under the title, De la Danse, Philadelphia, 1797.

43. Page 198. It may be a question hère of the Histoire naturelle des oiseaux by the celebrated naturalist, Louis Leclerc Buffon, or of one of his works.

44. Page 198. Barère and Collot d'Herbois and Billaud- Varennes had been arrested on March 2, 1795, and then brought to trial on the charges of participation in the Reign of Terror. After a brief interruption of the trial by a popular démonstration in their favor, the three were condemned to déportation to Cayenne on April 1. It was not until May 22 that the decree was enforced against Collot d'Herbois and Billaud-Varennes, Barère escaping to Bordeaux (see Barère Memoirs, III, 1). The date of Talleyrand's letter is only the day before the enforcement of the decree.

45. Page 202. Beaumetz's letter containing a synopsis of the play will be found in Note A, pp. 267-269. Efforts to identify the play hâve not been successful.

46. Page 211. Talleyrand is referring probably to Boissy d'Anglas' éloquent discourse of March 11, 1795, entitled, Motion d'ordre contre les Terroristes et les Royalistes faite à la Convention Nationale le 21 ventôse an III and ordered printed by the Convention.

47. Page 212. This letter was not introduced by the author into the body of the text, but this was evidently an oversight, for it is bound with the rest of text. It is therefore inserted hère under this date without other indications.

48. Page 214. Persistent search has proved fruitless to fînd a file of this most interesting paper during the fîrst period of its existence. The library of the Boston Athenaeum, however, contains a complète file of the second and last period, extending from 15 Oct. 1795 to 14 Mar. 1796. During this period the paper appeared daily, except Sunday, and was published in French at the press of Moreau de Saint-Méry. Gaterau, its editor, was an avowed aristocrat and, according to his own confession, had "a personal interest in the restoration of the monarchy." The one hundred and twenty-nine numbers of 1795-1796 reflect in a most interesting way the important events in France and in the French West Indies and reveal

many phases of the life of the large band of French émigrés at Philadelphia.