des 'Mille et une Nuits,' of the Arabian nights

1. 10. de VInstitut. The Académie française (see note to p. 87, 1. 15) and several othei-s, such as the Académie des Sciences, for which it had served as a niodel, had been suppressed by an

€dict of the Convention in 1793, but were revived by Louis XVIII under the gênerai title of the Institut National, divided into the following classes:— (1) V Académie française (as before) ; (2) L'Académie des Liscripfions et Belles-Lettres ; (3) L'Académie des Sciences ; (4) L'Académie des Beaux- Atis ; and in 1832 a fifth class was added: L'Académie des Sciences morales et politiques.

1. 12. président du trihunal de commerce, président of the Commercial Court.

1. 14. trihunal de première instafice, Court of First Instance.

1.17. premier gentilhomme de la chambre du roi, First Gentlemanin-Waiting to the King.