[ 2.] 1re, read: première.
Page 81.[ 1.] Forvertz, cf. page 13, note 1.
[ 2.] Convention Nationale, see Introduction, § 10.
Page 82.
[ 1.] quand je devrais tout y perdre, though I may be destined to lose all by it.
[ 2.] vendre des régiments, compare with the purchase of Hessian regiments by the British government in our Revolutionary war.
Page 83.
[ 1.] les paysans, see Introduction, §§ 15-20.
Page 84.
[ 1.] tonneau, cask; to be filled with wood ashes from which lye was made.
[ 2.] Il s'agit; it was a question of, or the work consisted in.
[ 3.] Sans-Culottes, lit., "without breeches" (knickerbockers), means "ragamuffin;" it was derisively applied to some of the Revolutionists who wore pantaloons, as small clothes were the dress of the Aristocracy.