Bataille de dames

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Bataille de dames

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[Footnote 126: #inqualifiable#, unspeakable.--#sanglante#,

outrageous. Both adjectives are too strong to accord with the rest of

the scene.]

[Footnote 127: Attend to your duties and go.]

[Footnote 128: The year indicated is 1799, when the Vendéeans had been

excited by English emissaries to a revolt from their temporary

submission to General Hoche in 1795. But this does not agree with the

statement of p. 47, line 32.]

[Footnote 129: #procureur#, prosecuting officer, who combined the

functions of the modern procureur and the _juge

d'instruction_,--functions that have nothing corresponding to them in

English justice or in American procedure.]