[1189] He who commanded the troops at the execution of Lewis XVI.
[1190] 1462.
[1191] I cannot learn of any book of this name. Perhaps Johnson saw Durandi Rationale Officiorum Divinorum, which was printed in 1459, one year later than Johnson mentions. A copy of this he had seen at Blenheim in 1774. His Journey into North Wales, Sept. 22.
[1192] He means, I suppose, that he read these different pieces while he remained in the library. BOSWELL.
[1193] Johnson in his Dictionary defines Apartment as A room; a set of rooms.
[1194] Smollett (Travels, i. 85) writes of these temporary servants:—'You cannot conceive with what eagerness and dexterity these rascally valets exert themselves in pillaging strangers. There is always one ready in waiting on your arrival, who begins by assisting your own servant to unload your baggage, and interests himself in your own affairs with such artful officiousness that you will find it difficult to shake him off.'
[1195] Livres—francs we should now say.
[1196] It was here that Rousseau got rid of his children. 'Je savais que l'éducation pour eux la moins perilleuse était celle des enfans trouvés; et je les y mis.' Les Reveries, ix'me promenade.
[1197] Dr. Franklin, in 1785, wrote:—'I am credibly informed that nine-tenths of them die there pretty soon.' Memoirs, iii. 187. Lord Kames (Sketches of the History of Man, iii. 91) says:—'The Paris almanac for the year 1768 mentions that there were baptised 18,576 infants, of whom the foundling-hospital received 6025.'
[1198] St. Germain des Prés. Better known as the Prison of the Abbaye.