le sommeil me tint rigueur, J could not sleep

Page 90.— 3. madame de B..., probably the countess de Boigne, in whose Parisian salon Mérimée read a number of his works in manuscript. The countess lived in the rue d’Anjou.

19. non (or ne) bis in idem, not twice into the same (jeopardy), a legal maxim according to which a man could not be tried twice for

the same offense. Cf. the English expression, ‘ Lightning does not strike twice in the same place.’