The bridge across the Seine nearest the Palais de Justice. See

a map of Paris for the route here described.

:

16. le Louvre :

Ancient royal palace, now a great museum. 21. la fille des Césars From 800 A.D., when Charlemagne was made head of the Roman Empire, to 1806, when Francis II., grandson of Francis I. and Maria Theresa, renounced his title of Emperor of Germany, the German emperors were the successors of the Cæsars, Emperors of Rome. 24. l'Oratoire: Now a Calvinistic church. It was built by the priests of the Oratory, between 1621 and 1630. 27. Palais-Royal: The residence of PhilippeÉgalité, Duke of Orleans. He was a most bitter enemy of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette, and at the trial of Louis voted for death. But he himself soon became "suspect," and was guillotined. The cafés on the ground floor of the palace were the rendez-vous of the radical republicans of 1789.

PAGE 200. 9. au club des Jacobins: The original Jacobins, an order of monks, were so called from the Church of Saint Jacques (Jacobus), near which their convent was built. In the time of the French Revolution the members of a radical political club held their meetings in this convent and were therefore called Jacobins. 12. insulteurs à gages, hired insulters. 14. l'Assomption: A church. 29. de monde, with people.

29. Tuileries: A royal palace in Paris, scene of the massacre of the Swiss Guard, Aug. 10, 1792, and of the overthrow of Louis XVI. Between the gardens of the Tuileries and the lower end of the broad avenue of the Champs-Élysées, was the Place de la Révolution.

PAGE 201. 8. le temps de la chevalerie est passé: "Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her [Marie Antoinette], in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.". EDMUND BURKE. 11. ne font que commencer, are only beginning. 17. Santerre: Leader of the mob against the Bastille, and a conspicuous participant in the insurrection of Aug. 10. He escorted Louis XVI. to the scaffold as commander-in-chief of the National Guard and governor of the

Temple. See p. 194 31-33. 21. le tribunal de sang: Le Tribunal Révolutionnaire, which, from March 31, 1793, to July 27, 1794, sent 2,669 victims to the scaffold. It sat in the Palais de Justice. It was suppressed May 31, 1795. 21. J'en appelle à toutes les mères: Marie Antoinette had been accused of corrupting her son. 32. la voilà qui tombe: See N. p. 2: 17.

PAGE 202. 13. Tous les parfums de l'Arabie, toutes les eaux de l'Océan, ne suffiraient pas pour effacer la tache de sang qui est sur ta main: See Shakespere's "Lady Macbeth: " "All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand." (Act V. Sc. i.) And: "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash blood clean from my hand?" (Act II. Sc. ii.)

PAGE 204. 9. quelque peu clerc, something of a clerk, scholar. 15. On le lui fit bien voir, They soon made him see

it.

Words identical in spelling (barring accents) and identical in meaning in the two languages, are not included in this Vocabulary. The forms of verbs marked irr. will be found in the alphabetical list of irregular verbs.