rois de piquet, term of a game of cards

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

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

Page 144. — i. Gros (i 771-1835), 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* — i. 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* — I. ombre, i.e. 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. ^^^ Louvenjoul, "Histoire des œuvres de Honoré de Balzac," pp. 1 01 -104.

Page 161. — I. aa janvier, 1793, the day after the exécution of Louis XVI, and so not literally in the Reign of Terror.

3. 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 founded

in 593-