l'ordre de, payable to

1. 21. par-devant notaire, in the présence of a lawyer, Roguin being présent.

par-devatît is used only in the language of jurisprudence.

1. 32. Pascal (1623-1662), a great French matbematician and religious philosopher of the seventeenth century, author of the Lettres Provinciales written against the Jesuits, and of the Pensées, which he wrote during the last years of his life with the object of converting sceptics to Christianity. The words quoted in 11. 31-32 are taken from the Pensées (Section I. 17) ; ' Les rivières sont des chemins qui marchent et qui portent où l'on veut aller,' where the simile of a river bearing a person to his destination is used to explain the nature of éloquence leading to a desired conclusion.

1. 36. Voltaire (1694-1778), a famous French writer of the eighteenth century, whose attacks on ail traditional authority foreshadowed the French Révolution of 1789. He was equally famous as a philosopher, as a historian {Le siècle de Louis XIV, L'Histoire de Charles XII), and as a diumatist {Mérope and others).

1. 39. la Chambre, i. e. la Chambre des Députés, corresponding to our House of Gommons. There is nothing équivalent to the House of Lords in France, the French Senate being composed of elected members.

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