jackal someone who performs menial tasks for another.
jack-boots heavy, sturdy military boots that extend above the knees.
Jacobin journal the newspaper of a society of radical democrats in France during the French Revolution: so called because their meetings were held in the Jacobin friars' convent.
Jacques the use of the name Jacques to signify French peasants began in the peasant revolts in 1358. To maintain anonymity and to show solidarity, rebels called each other by the same name. The network of rebels using the Jacques appellation is referred to as the Jacquerie.
king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face on the throne of France King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette.
king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face on the throne of England King George III and Queen Charlotte Sophia.
La Force a prison in Paris.
laudanum a solution of opium in alcohol or wine used as a painkiller or sleeping aid, or drunk as an intoxicant.
lee-dyed soaked with the dregs of the wine.
letter de cachet a document containing a royal warrant for the imprisonment without trial of a specified person.
linen things made of linen; in this case, shirts.
litter a stretcher for carrying the sick or wounded.
Loadstone Rock a rock containing loadstone (or lodestone), a naturally magnetic mineral.
lower regions the area of a house where servants often resided and where one could find the kitchen.
