[22] M. Lamartine does not here refer to Andre Chenier, an admirable lyric poet, from whom he has quoted at page 351.; he was a Royalist, and as such condemned and guillotined in July 1794, in his thirty-second year.  He had a brother, Joseph Chenier, his junior by two years, who was an enthusiastic republican, and wrote and brought out, from 1785 to 1795, a great many tragedies, viz. Charles IX., Calas, Henry VIII., Timoleon, Tibere, &c., and was elected member of the legislative assemblies from 1792 to 1802.  He fell under Napoleon’s displeasure, and he dismissed him from his appointment as inspector-general of public instruction, in 1803.  The consul was becoming imperial in his aspirations.  Joseph Chenier died in 1811, consistent to the last in his republican notions.—­H.  T. R.

[23] Editor of the infamous Pere Duchesne.—­H.  T. R.

[24] Furor arma ministrat.—­H.  T. H.

[25] It was on the 30th July, 1792, that the Marseillais arrived in Paris.—­H.  T. R.

[26] M. Lamartine has not in his work given the verses 3, 4, and 5; we have therefore supplied them, that “The Marseillaise” may be complete.  The Marseillais ruffians entered Paris on the 30th July, 1792, by the Faubourg Saint-Antoine (the St. Giles’s of Paris), and headed by Santerre, went to the Champs Elysees, (thus traversing the whole city from south to north,) where a banquet awaited them.  Their arrival was marked by riots and bloodshed—­Duhamel was murdered.  This celebrated song was written by Rouget de Lisle, who also composed the air.  On the 18th Nivose, an. iv.(8th January, 1795,) an order of the Directory enjoined that at all theatres and sights the air of the “Marseillaise,” and those of “Ca Ira,—­Veillons au Salut de l’Empire,” and “Le Chant du Depart,” should be played.  Rouget de Lisle was an officer of engineers in 1790, and in spite of his republican opinions, incarcerated during the reign of terror and only saved by the 9th Thermidor.  He would assuredly have been accompanied to the guillotine by his own song.—­H.  T. R.

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