Translation of French Foot-Notes of the Dawn-Breakers/Chapter XVIII

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CHAPTER XVIII

Page 314, Note 1 Born July 17, 1831; began to reign September, 1848, died 1896. “This Prince left Tihrán to return to his government the twenty-third of January, 1848. His father having died the fourth of September, he returned to assume the title of Sháh on the eighteenth of September of the same year.” (A. L. M. Nicolas’ “Siyyid ‘Alí-Muḥammad dit le Báb,” p. 243, note 195.)

Page 319, Note 1 “If anyone should raise an objection to the grammar or syntax of these verses, this objection is vain, because the rules of grammar should be taken from the verses and not the verses written in compliance with the rules of grammar. There is no doubt that the Master of these verses denied these rules, denied that he, himself, was ever aware of them.” (“Le Bayán Persan,” vol. 1, pp. 45-46.)