Chapter Martin to Mary Anne Associations of M by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

as Mary, afterwards Queen of Scots, and her companions. Mary Carmichael was not one of the four, although introduced in the well-known ballad.

“Yestre'en the queen had four Marys,
This night she'll hae but three:
There was Mary Beaton, and Mary Seaton,
Mary Carmichael, and me.”

Mary Anne or Marianne. A slang name for the guillotine. (See below.)

Mary Anne Associations Secret republican societies in France. The name comes about thus: Ravaillac was instigated to assassinate Henri IV. by reading the treatise De Rege et Regio Institutione, by Mariana, and as Mariana inspired Ravaillac “to deliver France,” the republican party was called the Mary-Anne.

“The Mary Annes, which are essentially republicans, are scattered about all the French provinces.”- Disraeli: Lothair.