[1]: Silk-stocking republican.
[2]: Here is Rhodes, leap here! An allusion to Æsop’s Fables.
[3]: This was written at the beginning of 1852.
[4]: Brother, you must die!
[5]: The debtors’ prison.
[6]: Intelligent bayonets.
[7]: The hero in Chamisso’s “Peter Schlemihl,” who loses his own
shadow.
[8]: Practical joke.
[9]: The candidate of the Bourbons, or Legitimists, for the throne.
[10]: January, 1852.
[11]: We shall see.
[12]: You are nothing but fakirs.
[13]: Man of straw.
[14]: Napoleonic ideas.
[15]: Under the reign of Louis Philippe, Bonaparte made two attempts
to restore the throne of Napoleon: one in October, 1836, in an
expedition from Switzerland upon Strassburg; and one in August,
1840, in an expedition from England upon Boulogne.
[16]: Long live Napoleon! Long live the sausages!
[17]: Work cities.
[18]: After the act is done; after the feast.
[19]: An allusion to the lilies of the Bourbon coat-of-arms.
[20]: Peasant revolts.
[21]: Within fifty years Europe will be either republican or Cossack.
[22]: Cossack republic.
[23]: It is the complete and definite triumph of Socialism.
[24]: The first French Revolution distributed the bulk of the
territory of France, held at the time by the feudal lords, in
small patches among the cultivators of the soil. This allotment
of lands created the French farmer class.
[25]: The inquiry into paternity is forbidden.
[26]: L. N. Bonaparte is said to have been an illegitimate son.
[27]: The Cévennes were the theater of the most numerous revolutionary
uprisings of the farmer class.
[28]: La Vendée was the theater of protracted reactionary uprisings of
the farmer class under the first Revolution.
[29]: The name of the French national bonds.
[30]: “It is the first flight of the eagle.” The French word “vol”
means theft as well as flight.
[31]: “You count your property, you should rather count the years left
to you.”
[32]: Soulonque was the negro Emperor of the shortlived negro Empire
of Hayti.
[33]: Crevel is a character of Balzac, drawn after Dr. Véron, the
proprietor of the “Constitutional” newspaper, as a type of the
dissolute Parisian Philistine.
[34]: “He is the king of the clowns.”
[35]: Madame de Girardin.
[36]: A prophecy that a few years later, after Bonaparte’s coronation
as Emperor, was literally fulfilled. By order of the Emperor
Louis Napoleon, the military statue of the first Napoleon that
originally surmounted the Vendome column was taken down and
replaced by one of first Napoleon in imperial robes.