the subject (two hundred stanzas of
eight lines each).

_Revenge_ (_The Palace of_), a palace of crystal, provided with
everything agreeable to life except the means of going out of it. The
fairy Pagan made it, and when Imis rejected his suit because she loved
Prince Philax, he shut them up in this palace out of revenge. At the end
of a few years Pagan had his revenge, for Philax and Imis longed as
eagerly for a separation as they had once done to be united.--Comtesse
D'Aunoy, _Fairy Tales_ ("Palace of Revenge," 1682).

=Revenons [`a] nos Moutons=, let us return to the matter in hand. This
phrase comes from an old French comedy of the fifteenth century,
entitled _L'Avocat Patelin_, by Blanchet. A clothier, giving evidence
against a shepherd who had stolen some sheep, is for ever running from
the subject to talk about some cloth of which Patelin, his lawyer, had
defrauded him. The judge from time to time pulls him up by saying,
"Well, well! and about the sheep?" "What about the sheep!" (See
PATELIN.)

=Revolutionary Songs.= By far the most popular were:

1. _La Marseillaise_, both words and music by Rouget de Lisle (1792).

2. _Veillons au Salut de l'Empire_, by Adolphe S. Boy (1791). Music by
Dalayra. Very strange that men whose whole purpose was to _destroy_ the
empire should go about singing "Let us guard it!"

3. _[C,]a Ira_, written to the tune of _Le Carillon National_, in 1789,
while preparations were being made for the _F[^e]te de la
F['e]deration_. It was a great favorite with Marie Antoinette, who was
for ever "strumming the tune on her harpsichord."

4. _Chant du D['e]part_, by Marie Joseph de Ch['e]nier (1794). Music by
M['e]hul. This was the most popular next to the _Marseillaise_.

5. _La Carmagnole._ "Madame Veto avait promis de faire ['e]gorger tout
Paris ..." (1792). Probably so called from Carmagnole, in Piedmont. The
burden of this dancing song is:

Danson la Carmagnole,
Vive le son! Vive le son!
Danson la Carmagnole,
Vive le son du canon!

6. _La Vengeur_, a spirited story, in verse, about a ship so called.
Lord Howe took six of the French ships, June 1, 1794; but _La Vengeur_
was sunk by the crew, that it might not fall into the hands of the
English, and went down while the crew shouted "Vive la R['e]publique!" The
story bears a strong resemblance to that of "The Revenge," Sir Richard
Grenville's ship. See _ante_.

In the second Revolution we have:

1. _La Par