because its former half has, when
pronounced according to the rules of French prosody, seven syllables,
while an alexandrine hemistich should have but six, as this will have if
_bonapartiste_ is spoken without the final _e_.]

[Footnote 124: #Corneille# (1606-1684) was the first of the great
French classical dramatists, and in the opinion of many the greatest
French tragic poet.]

[Footnote 125: #Ah! ca#, _By the way_. Cp. p. 16, note 2.]

#Page 46.#

[Footnote 126: #inqualifiable#, _unspeakable_.--#sanglante#,
_outrageous_. Both adjectives are too strong to accord with the rest of
the scene.]

[Footnote 127: _Attend to your duties_ and go.]

[Footnote 128: The year indicated is 1799, when the Vendeeans had been
excited by English emissaries to a revolt from their temporary
submission to General Hoche in 1795. But this does not agree with the
statement of p. 47, line 32.]

[Footnote 129: #procureur#, _prosecuting officer_, who combined the
functions of the modern _procureur_ and the _juge
d'instruction_,--functions that have nothing corresponding to them in
English justice or in American procedure.]

#Page 47.#

[Footnote 130: #a ma barbe#, "_under my nose,_" "_before my very
eyes._"]

[Footnote 131: #Moreau# (1763-1813), "the greatest general of the
French republic after Napoleon and Hoche," after winning the great
victory of Hohenlinden, December, 1800, intrigued against Napoleon, and
was forced to leave France in 1804. He continued his scheming while in
exile, and in 1813, while serving in the Russian army, he was mortally
wounded at the Battle of Dresden. But before leaving France he, or more
probably his ambitious wife, had gathered all the elements of discontent
with the self-seeking of Napoleon into a cabal called the _club Moreau_,
of which these fugitive #compagnons# may be supposed to be members,
for the club was relentlessly suppressed by Napoleon.]

[Footnote 132: #98# (_quatre-vingt-dix-huit_). #1804# (_mil huit
cent quatre_). These are not the dates indicated, p. 46, line 20, or p.
47, line 6. #1804# is not _douze ans apres_ (p. 47, line 6) either
#1798# or #1799#. Then, too, '98 was a comparatively quiet year in
Vendee. On the other hand the countess would have been, as she says (p.
46, line 33), then fourteen if she was thirty-three (p. 7, line 25) in
1817.]

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[Footnote 133: #mansarde#, _attic_ or _garret_. Properly a sort of
gambrel-roof introduced into France by the archit