Footnotes
[1] Gallifet was the general who was directly responsible for the massacre of thousands or French workingmen at the closing days of the Paris Commune.
[2] They simulate Curius but live like Bacchanals. (Juvenal.)
[3] Rabelais, Pantagruel, Book II, Chapter XXXIV. Translation or Urquhart and Motteux.
[4] Paul de Cassagnac, like his father, Orsnier, was prominent as a conservative politician, journalist and duellist.