[5]

Ah bien oui! Indeed I would, but nowadays one has no time, etc.

[6]

née Kermadio, born a Kermadio, and so, as this name implies to a French ear, a Breton noble, and therefore almost certainly an extreme royalist, and so least likely to be suspected of sheltering a Bonapartist conspirator.

[7]

timbrée, post-marked.—pleine Vendée, in the heart of Vendée, in Poitou, noted for the fierce civil war between the French Republic and the local royalists (March-December, 1793), and the scene of frequent royalist outbreaks for many years after.