Marianne and the Privateer

Footnotes

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1. Performances in the Paris theatres began and ended much earlier in those days, enabling patrons to return home to outlying districts.

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2. It is a matter of historical fact that at this period a one-time felon named François Vidocq who had been working secretly as a police agent within the prisons was authorized to escape. From then on, he became a member of the official police force and even lived to become its head.