(Published in the _Cornhill Magazine_, 1871. Browning gave the
£100 received for the poem to the fund for the relief of the people of
Paris, who were starving after the siege of 1870.)
The cause of James II., who had been removed from the English throne
in 1688, and succeeded by William and Mary, was taken up by the
French. The story is strictly historical, except that Hervé Riel asked
a holiday for the rest of his life.
5. =St. Malo on the Rance=. On the northern coast of France, in
Brittany. See any large atlas.