[Footnote G:  On the 14th July 1789, the Bastille was taken, and destroyed by the Revolutionists.  The stones were used, for the most part, in the construction of the Pont de la Concorde.—­Ed.]

[Footnote H:  Charles Lebrun, Court painter to Louis XIV. of France (1619-1690)—­Ed.]

[Footnote I:  The Republican general, Michel Beaupuy.  See p. 302 [Footnote N below], and the note upon him by Mons. Emile Legouis of Lyons, in the appendix [Note VII] to this volume, p. 401.—­Ed.]

[Footnote K:  Carra and Gorsas were journalist deputies in the first year of the French Republic.  Gorsas was the first of the deputies who died on the scaffold.  Carlyle thus refers to them, and to the “hundred other names forgotten now,” in his ‘French Revolution’ (vol. iii. book i. chap. 7): 

“The convention is getting chosen—­really in a decisive spirit.  Some two hundred of our best Legislators may be re-elected, the Mountain bodily.  Robespierre, with Mayor Petion, Buzot, Curate Gregoire and some threescore Old Constituents; though we men had only thirty voices. All these and along with them friends long known to the Revolutionary fame:  Camille Desmoulins, though he stutters in speech, Manuel Tallein and Company; Journalists Gorsas, Carra, Mersier, Louvet of Faubias; Clootz, Speaker of Mankind, Collet d’Herbois, tearing a passion to rags; Fahre d’Egalantine Speculative Pamphleteer; Legendre, the solid Butcher; nay Marat though rural France can hardly believe it, or even believe there is a Marat, except in print.”  Ed.]

[Footnote L:  Many of the old French Noblesse, and other supporters of Monarchy, fled across the Rhine, and with thousands of emigres formed a special Legion, which co-operated with the German army under the Emperor Leopold and the King of Prussia.—­Ed.]

[Footnote M:  Compare book vi. l. 345, etc.—­Ed.]

[Footnote N:  Beaupuy.  See p. 297 [Footnote I, above]: 

  “Save only one, hereafter to be named,” [Line 132]

and the note on Beaupuy, in the appendix [Note VII] to this volume, p. 401.—­Ed.]

[Footnote O:  Compare Wordsworth’s poem ‘Dion’, in volume vi. of this edition.—­Ed.]

[Footnote P:  When Plato visited Syracuse, in the reign of Dionysius, Dion became his disciple, and induced Dionysius to invite Plato a second time to Syracuse.  But neither Plato nor Dion could succeed in their efforts to influence and elevate Dionysius.  Dion withdrew to Athens, and lived in close intimacy with Plato, and with Speusippus.  The latter urged him to return, and deliver Sicily from the tyrant Dionysius, who had become unpopular in the island.  Dion got some of the Syracusan exiles in Greece to join him, and “sailed from Zacynthus,” with two merchant ships, and about 800 troops.  He took Syracuse, and became dictator of the district.  But—­as was the case with the tyrants of the French Revolution who took the place of those of the old regime (record later on in ’The Prelude’)—­the Syracusans found that they had only exchanged one form of rigour for another.  It is thus that Plutarch refers to the occurrence.