que je monte, that I have come upstairs

29. vous fera mal de, will hurt you, to. De introduces the real subject.

Page 106. — 16. [statue . . . ] du joueur de mourre, qu’on désigne . . . sous le nom de Germanicus. Mérimée probably refers to a statue of Germanicus in the Louvre, reproduced by Reinach, Répertoire de la statuaire grecque et romaine, I (Paris, 1897), page 152, note 3.

31. figure. Compare the description of the statue with that of Carmen (page 18, line 26 ff.). Notice how much longer are Mérimée’s descriptions of his characters than his landscapes.

Page 107. — 11. plus . . . , et plus, the more ..., the more.

20. C’est Vénus tout entière à sa proie attachée. Quotation from Racine, Phèdre, I, 3, line 306.

Page 108. — 20. ne vous en déplaise, if you will not he offended, I would say that . . .

Page 109. — 14. A grand renfort de bésicles, With abundant use of my spectacles. The phrase is a familiar quotation from Rabelais, Gargantua, Bk. I, ch. I.

NOTES

Page 111. — 9. SOUR est le nom phénicien de Tyr . . . sens.

The name is not Sour but Ç ''■or; it probably means ‘ rock, fortress.’

ii. Baal was the chief god of the Phenicians; Bel is the Assyrian form of the same word, used in the Bible as the name of the god Marduk.