rois de piquet, term of a game of cards

Page 140. — 1. en rougissant. Adélaïde's blushing at this innocent prévarication shows her a person of exceptionally ingenuous candor.

Page 143. — 1. Assomption, church of the Assumption.

Page 144. — 1. Gros (1771— 1835), an historical painter. Joseph Brideau, hère said to be his pupil, is a character prominent in several novels of Balzac, especially "Les Illusions perdues."

Page 145. — 1. des Grieux, the rather contemptibly sentimental hero of Prévost's "Manon Lescaut" (1735). No misconduct or unworthiness of his beloved could cure his infatuated passion.

Page 150. — 1. ombre, Le. constant companion.

Un Episode sous la Terreur, An Episode in the Reign of Terror (March, 1793-July, 1794), dated January, 1831, was first printed anonymously in 1830. Its ending was materially changed when it was incorporated in the "Scènes de la vie politique" in 1845. See Louvenjoul, "Histoire des œuvres de Honoré de Balzac," pp. 101-104.

Page 151. — 1. 22 janvier, 1793, the day after the exécution of Louis XVI, and so not literally in the Reign of Terror.

2. faubourg Saint-Martin, then a thinly settled district lying between the présent Rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis and the Rue du Faubourg du Temple. It contained the great Hôpital Saint- Louis and several convents. St. Lawrence's church at the junc-

tion of the Magenta and Strasbourg boulevards was founcted

in 593-