TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
Reading edition
H. Piffard provided the illustrations.
Minor spelling inconsistencies (e.g. riding-habit/riding habit, wax lights/wax-lights, etc.) have been preserved.
Alterations to the text:
Convert the footnote to an endnote.
Fix a few quotation mark pairings.
Change three instances of Eugene to Eugène.
[II]
Change (“I tell you that five of Sartine’s men are there”) to Sartines’.
“had supped well, as he always did at the Hôtel Beutreillis” to Beautreillis.
“Bénôit, who was said to be the finest swordsman in Paris” to Bénoît.
“It was nearly five o’cloek in the evening when he set out” to o’clock.
[III]
“What has my daughter to do with the Conceirgerie” to Conciergerie.
[IV]
(image caption) “If yon Rogues are not Foopads, put me in the Pillory” to Footpads.
“Even the learned were gross in superstitution in the middle” to superstition.
[VII]
“driven through the gateway of the Hôtel Beautreilles” to Beautreillis.
[VIII]
“seized a flagon of wine and brought it crash upon the head of” add with a after it.
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