laide et brunière ; cf. page 45, note

3. soit, subjunctive required by the conjunctive phrase de manière que denoting purpose (not resuit).

Page 51. — I. S 'étant avisé, having bethonght himself. 2. Qu'on suspende; translate Que by let, and render verb by a passive construction.

Page 53. — i. Brachet (Haute-Marne); Brachet is a village situated in north-eastern France, in the department of Haute-Marne, so named from the river Marne, which rises in that locality.

Page 54. — i. prit un brevet d'invention, took ont a patent.

2. empyreumatiques, empyretcmatic, "pertaining to or having the taste or smell of slightly burned animal or vegetable substances."

3. au Havre, at Havre ; le Havre (the haven) is an important seaport on the north-western coast of France, at the mouth of the river Seine.

4. rue Saint-Dominique, an east-and-west street near the Seine, on the south side, running between the Boulevard St. Germain and the Champ de Mars.

5. couronnement de Napoléon 1er; the cérémonies of coronation took place in the cathedral of Notre-Dame at Paris on Dec. 2, 1804. Pope Pius VIL had made the journey from Rome to crown the emperor, but at the last moment Napoléon placed the crown himself upon his own head.

6. Champs-Elysées, lit. "Elysian Fields," name of a magnificent avenue, one of the most fashionable promenades in Paris, running from the famous square called the Place de la Concorde to the Arc de VÉtoile.

7. James Watt (1 736-1819), a Scottish engineer and inventor of great skill. He invented several important improvements in the steam-engine, and was associated in the manufacture of engines near Birmingham, England.

Page 55. — l. Georges III ascended the throne of England in 1760, and died in 1820, having been insane since 1810. The protection hère referred to had evidently been granted in the early years of the century.