The new song, executed some days afterwards at Strasbourg, flew from city to city, in every public orchestra.  Marseilles adopted it to be sung at the opening and the close of the sittings of its clubs.  The Marseillais spread it all over France, by singing it every where on their way.  Whence the name of Marseillaise.  De Lisle’s old mother, a royalist and religious, alarmed at the effect of her son’s voice, wrote to him:  “What is this revolutionary hymn, sung by bands of brigands, who are traversing France, and with which our name is mingled?” De Lisle himself, proscribed as a royalist, heard it and shuddered, as it sounded on his ears, whilst escaping by some of the wild passes of the Alps.  “What do they call that hymn?” he inquired of his guide.  “The Marseillaise,” replied the peasant.  It was thus he learnt the name of his own work.  The arm turned against the hand that forged it.  The Revolution, insane, no longer recognised its own voice!

END OF THE FIRST VOLUME.

FOOTNOTES: 

[1] See an elegant exposition of this idea in Schlegel’s Dramatic Literature (Standard Library Edition, page 67.).

[2] La Fayette rode a favourite white horse on public occasions during this period.—­H.  T. R.

[3] “Infamous and contented.”—­Junius.

[4] “Pere Duchesne” was one of the most virulent, gross, and blood-thirsty productions of the Revolution.  It was edited by Manuel and Hebert.  Its success and profit were so great, that it had many imitators.  It was rather a pamphlet than a newspaper, the price fifty sous a month—­H.  T. R.

[5] It has been generally understood that Voltaire was born at Chatenay, near Paris, in February, 1694.—­H.  T. R.

[6] Voltaire’s residence in Switzerland, where he lived nearly twenty years.—­H.  T. R.

[7] Qu.  Middlesex in 1769?—­H.  T. R.

[8] This appellation is given to a period of French history extending from 1643 to 1655.  By some it is styled an attempt to establish a balanced constitution in the state,—­by others, the last essay of expiring feudality.  The frondeur leaders were the Duc de Beaufort, Cardinal de Retz, Prince de Conti, Duc de Bouillon, Mareschaux Turenne and de la Motte.  On the side of their opponents, called Mazarins, were the Cardinal Mazarin himself, the Prince de Conde, Marechal de Grammont, and the Duc de Chatillon, while the Duc d’Orleans, a vacillating man, wavered between the two parties.  The successes of the rival powers were alternate for a long time; eventually the frondeurs were defeated, and De Retz escaping into Lorraine, Mazarin returned to Paris triumphant in February 1653.—­H.  T. R.

[9] If M. de Lamartine would convey the idea that Burke was a partisan of the French Revolution, we must combat the assertion by a reference to dates.  Talleyrand was ambassador in England in 1792.  In October 1791, Burke’s “Reflections on the Revolution in France” appeared, to which Tom Paine’s “Rights of Man” was one of the replies, and Sir James Mackintosh’s “Vindiciae” another; and previously, in 1789 and 1790, Burke had condemned the tendencies of the Revolution, and the conduct of the Revolutionists.—­H.  T. R.