[Footnote 132: #98# (_quatre-vingt-dix-huit_). #1804# (_mil huit cent quatre_). These are not the dates indicated, p. 46, line 20, or p. 47, line 6. #1804# is not _douze ans après_ (p. 47, line 6) either #1798# or #1799#. Then, too, '98 was a comparatively quiet year in Vendée. On the other hand the countess would have been, as she says (p. 46, line 33), then fourteen if she was thirty-three (p. 7, line 25) in 1817.] #Page 48.# [Footnote 133: #mansarde#, _attic_ or _garret_. Properly a sort of gambrel-roof introduced into France by the architect Mansard (d. 1666).] [Footnote 134: #défiance#, _mistrust_.] [Footnote 135: #Prenez des forces#, _recruit your strength_.] ACT II. SCENE 9. #Page 50.# [Footnote 136: #Où veut-il en venir#, _What is he "driving at?"_] [Footnote 137: #surcroît de gages#, _in addition to your wages_.] [Footnote 138: #Le voici#, _He's caught_, i.e., he has yielded to the temptation of Montrichard's bribe.] [Footnote 139: #de l'argent gagné#. There is a _double entente_ here. Montrichard understands "money as good as earned," because Henri feels sure of success. Henri means that the audience shall understand him to say "money already earned," because he has already shown the outlaw to Montrichard.] ACT II. SCENE 10. #Page 51.# [Footnote 140: #Et d'un#, _There's one_.] [Footnote 141: #personnage muet#, _man who doesn't count_. Technically one who appears on the stage but does not speak.] [Footnote 142: #cour prévôtale#, _provost court_, or "court martial," "a criminal tribunal temporarily established, and judging without appeal" (Littré).] [Footnote 143: #bord#, _party, side,_ or _way of thinking_. See also dictionary.] [Footnote 144: #notre classe#. This is a delightful touch. Montrichard, having been republican and bonapartist, now chooses to regard himself as one of the original aristocracy.] #Page 52.# [Footnote 145: #signalement#, _description_ issued by the police for the identification of fugitives from justice.] [Footnote 146: #avait le temps#. This bears out the regret of Léonie, p. 2, line 16.] [Footnote 147: #romanesque#, _romantic_. Note that while at the date of this play, 1851, romanticism was no longer the fashion for men in Paris, it was still thought attractive in young girls, especially among the landed aristocracy. See my edition of "Le Gendre de monsieur Poirier," p. 46, note 3.] #Page 54.# [Footnote 148: #pour acquit de conscience#, _to ease my conscience_.] [Footnote 149: #placards#, cupboards with a suggestion of hiding-chambers, such as were built in the thick walls and enormous chimneys (#cheminées#) of many ancient houses both on the Continent and in England.] [Footnote 150: #garçons de ferme#, _farm-hands_.--#hommes de peine#, _laborers_, here perhaps the stable-boys and grooms.] #Page 55.# [Footnote 151: That is, _friends whose lives depend on his life_.] #Page 56.# [Footnote 152: The humor is the same here as p. 50, line 26.]