[407] Bordier was a comedian well known in Paris for his performances of the character of Harlequin. He and Jourdain, an advocate from Lisieux, placed themselves at the head of a riot on the night of 3 August 1789 and were eventually taken and hanged.--B. [408] Jean Racine (1639-1699), the greatest of the French tragic poets.--T. [409] Antoine Marie Gaspard Sacchini (1735-1786), the "Racine of music," composer of a number of brilliant operas. His merits were never fully appreciated, owing to the disputes between the adherents of Gluck and Piccini, which absorbed public attention at the time.--T. [410] A comedy in three acts, interspersed with songs; words by Michel Jean Sedaine (1719-1797).--B. [411] A comic opera in one act, words and the greater part of the music by Jean Cazotte (1720-1792).--B. [412] "Fall rain, or fell snow, or blow wind, To shorten long nights we've a mind."--T. [413] Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656-1708), author of an early classification of botanical _genera_ and species.--T. [414] Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau (1700-1782), Inspector-General of the Navy, and an eminent agricultural and arboricultural expert.--T. [415] Bernard de Jussieu (1699-1777), the most learned member of a family comprising no less than four distinguished botanists.--T. [416] Nehemiah Grew (_circa_ 1628-1711), author of the _Anatomy of Plants_, and an early Fellow of the Royal Society (1673).--T. [417] Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778): the work referred to is his _Dictionnaire botanique._--T. [418] Charles Linnæus (1707-1778), the great Swedish botanist.--T. [419] George Washington (1732-1799), first President of the United States (1789-1793 and 1793-1797).--T. [420] Angélique Françoise Dame de La Fonchais (1769-1793), sister to André Desilles, the hero of Nancy, was guillotined 13 June 1793, the same time as her brother-in-law, Michel Julien Picot de Limoëlan, displaying admirable courage on the scaffold.--B. [421] Major Chafner, _vide supra_, p. 66.--B. [422] Captain Dujardin Pinte-de-Vin of the brig _Saint-Pierre_, bound for the islands of Saint-Pierre and Miguelon, whence she was to make for Baltimore.--B. [423] François Charles Nagot (_d._ 1816), not Nagault, was the superior, not of the seminary of Saint-Sulpice, but of the community of Robertines in Paris, one of the annexes of the seminary of Saint-Sulpice. He left for Baltimore in order to become the superior of a Sulpician seminary in that city, accompanied by three young priests of the Company. The Abbé Nagot arrived at Baltimore in July 1791, and in the September following established St Mary's Seminary, the first and best-known seminary in the United States. In 1822 Pope Pius VII. erected St Mary's College into a Catholic university.--B. [424] _Esprit fort_, a free-thinker or latitudinarian.--T. [425] 2 April 1791.--T. [426] 8 April 1791.--B. BOOK VI[427]