esprit. The allusion is to a mediaeval legend

3. intussusoeption, interpenetraHon. The word is used quite often by Balzac, but is otherwise confined to médical psychophysiology.

Page 97. — i. démarquer, a technical term alluding to the placing of wagers.

Page 98» — i. Naples might then hâve had an ambassador at Paris, for it remained a kingdom till 1860.

Page 100. — I. moxas, cauterizations^ a, term of médical surgery.

2. automne. Such récurrence of disease at the anniversary of its occasion is frequently observed by physicians.

3. jouit. The irony is rather superfluously marked by italics, which are in other cases used peculiarly by Balzac.

Page 102. — I. sanhédrin (Hebrew), convocation, gathering.

Page 103. — I. boules du billard, balh numbered to fix the succession of players, not "billiard balls."

2. Foy (177 5-1 82 5), a noted French gênerai and political opponent of the Bourbon reaction (181 5-1830). The apparently harmless provision of a fund for the support of his children was made the occasion of a great political protest. A million francs were raised, and 100,000 people attended his funeral.

3. ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degrés, an Alexandrine line from Racine's "Phèdre," Act IV, Scène 2, Une 62.

Page 104. — I. Nantes. The Edict of Nantes, by Henry IV. (1598), granted religions toleration to Huguenots. It was revoked in 1685. Fifty thousand Protestants left France and their estâtes were confiscated.