[62] I remember that both the Place de la Concorde and the Esplanade des Invalides were littered with these papers, some in fragments quite charred and black, and others but slightly burnt at the corners. Among the less damaged documents I noticed were some curious petitions of the old émigrés of the Revolution beseeching Louis XVIII. to give them back their ancestral estates.—Trans.
[63] Among those who witnessed this scene, or at all events one very similar on the same spot, were the translator's father and brother, Mr. Henry and Mr. Arthur Vizetelly.
[64] A vast magazine where cereals and oil, especially the latter, were stored in considerable quantities.—Trans.