L. 1. _L'innocente victime._ A child of Mme Laurent Lecoulteux, who,
living at Lucienne, was often visited by André Chénier during his stay
at Versailles in 1793, and sung by him under the name of Fanny; only a
fragment of the elegy is here given.
L. 6. _Adieu, dans la maison d'où l'on ne revient pas._ There is here
a bold ellipsis: 'Adieu, _toi qui es_ dans la maison....' _Maison_ is
Biblical; John xiv. 2. _D'où l'on ne revient pas_, cf. Job vii, 9.
L. 13. _L'axe de l'humble char._ For _axe_ see note to p. 65, xi, l. 2.
The phrasing now seems very old-fashioned indeed.
L. 22. _Où ta mère..._ She died, in fact, an untimely death, after
having lost her children.