Chapter VI:
Vider picciola nave; e in poppa quella
Che guidar gli dovea, fatal Donzella.
"Gerusal. Lib.," cant. XV. 3.
Post ignem aetherea domo
Subductum, macies et nova febrium
Terris incubuit cohors.
Horat.
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le joli Polichinel…
Chapter VI:
Vider picciola nave; e in poppa quella
Che guidar gli dovea, fatal Donzella.
"Gerusal. Lib.," cant. XV. 3.
Post ignem aetherea domo
Subductum, macies et nova febrium
Terris incubuit cohors.
Horat.
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le joli Polichinelle: A variant spelling of Pulcinella, a character that originated in commedia dell'arte of the 17th century and became a stock character in Neapolitan puppetry.
When Nicot uses "thee" to one of the people in the crowd, the author gives us this footnote on that usage: The courteous use of the plural was proscribed at Paris. The Sociétiés Populaires had decided that whoever used it should be prosecuted as suspect et adulateur! At the door of the public administrations and popular societies was written up, “Ici on s'honore du Citoyen, et on se tutoye”!!! Take away Murder from the French Revolution and it becomes the greatest farce ever played before the angels!
And "the National Window" gets a footnote telling us that means the guillotine.
Dom Gerle: Christophe Antoine Gerle
"On ne peut être ami du peuple et habiter un palais.” - this phrase comes with a footnote from the author: "Papiers inedits, trouvés chez Robespierre, &c.," vol. II. p. 132.
On the name of Henriot, we get another footnote from the author: Or Hanriot. It is singular how undetermined are not only the characters of the French Revolution, but even the spelling of their names. With the historians it is Vergniaud - with the journalists of the time it is Vorgniaux. With one authority it is Robespierre - with another Roberspierre.
The picture used is the courtyard of the house of Maurice Duplay (1736-1820), Robespierre's landlord, at No. 366 rue Saint-Honoré in Paris. Robespierre's room was on the second floor, above the fountain.
Unfortunately for me, the spelling of the name used in my book is Dupleix, hence I used the 'x' sound instead of the 'y' it should have been. Oops. Should have looked it up before recording, but I didn't realize the book was going to be accurate to this level of minute detail...
To follow along: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2664/2664-h/2664-h.htm#link2HCH0070
