mes livres amis, ' my beloved books

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1. 1864. Les Pitt et les Cobourg. Froper names, except one or two well-known family names, hâve no plural. The exception Catilinas in IL 98, 2237, has been remarked. Hère the plural article dénotes a class, *such men as Pitt and Coburg,' or, as we should write, 'a Pitt and a Coburg.* Pitt and Cobousg were a sort of two-headed nightmare to French republicans. Pitt was William Pitt the younger, Prime Minister of England, who was the centre of the coalitions against France. Cobourg was Frederick-Josiah, Duke of Saxe- Coburg, commanding the Austrian forces in the Netherlands from 1 792 to 1794. Hedefeated Dumouriez at Neerwinden, 1793, but was beaten at Wattignies in 1793 and at Fleuras in 1794.

1. 1870. se croient tout permis ^ * think they may do any thing.* 1. 1878. la menace à la bouche^ ' with threats on their lips.* 1. 1880. C*est bien la plus absurde et plus folle pensée. Hère ce résumes the two substantival sentences beginning with chercher (1. 1368), and enseigner (1. 1374), with their dépendent clauses ; ce is pleonastic, and the sentences form the real nominative. See Eve, § 69. L 1888. Que.,. il tende au résultat^ *he must seek his ends.* L 1888. auguste^ * noble.'

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