Duchesse de Duras.
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Footnote 1:
The Prince de Poix, who had defended and followed the king on the
10th of August.
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Footnote 2:
A line of Racine.--TRANSLATER.
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Footnote 3:
This 'little château,' dated from the sixteenth century, is one of
the finest specimens of Renaissance architecture in existence, and
was included in the gift of the Duc d'Aumale to the French nation
(1886). The Grand Château, where Condé had spent twenty years of his
life, and which was so famous for its literary associations with the
names of Molière, Boileau, Racine, and La Fontaine, was destroyed in
1793.--TRANSLATER.
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Footnote 4:
One of the holidays laid down in the revised Revolutionary
calendar.--TRANSLATER.
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Footnote 5:
A detailed account of the prison of the Luxembourg may be found in
the journal of Madame Latour.
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Footnote 6:
The Vicomtesse de Noailles.
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Footnote 7:
The victims brought before the Revolutionary tribunal for examination
were placed in an armchair, and from it they were taken to the
scaffold.
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Footnote 8:
Alexis and Alfred de Noailles, sons of the Vicomtesse de Noailles.
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Footnote 9:
The division of ten days, by which the Republican calendar supplanted
the week--TRANSLATER.
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Footnote 10:
The highest price at which food, at that time, was allowed to be sold
in Paris.
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Footnote 11:
The first Revolutionary tribunal had been established by the law of
the 17th of August, 1792.