Chapter 1.3.V: Loménie's Thunderbolts
Notes
“Letters of Jussion;” The letter used to call a bed of justice
feræ naturæ “Wild animals” (Latin)
“Plainte” A formal legal complaint
touching the “prodigalities of Calonne,” and permission to “proceed” against him As mentioned previously, questionable allegations were leveled against Calonne, who (in the long tradition of viciously attacking the King’s ministers in order to avoid criticizing the man himself) had become a scapegoat
postillions Like a coachman but who is sitting on a horse instead of in the coach itself
the blood of murdered Lally A French general of the Seven Year’s War who failed to capture Madras and had to surrender the French posts in India to the British. He was beheaded for his failures after a trial in which justice was secondary to anger. He was posthumously exonerated by Louis XVI in 1778.
Abbé Morellet Philosophe and Encyclopédie contributor