rf'îCî = depuis ce moment

Page 79. 1. 8. rvde is not ' rude ', but ' rough, sharp, disagreeable ' ; hère ' surly '.

Page 80. 1.4. sen//r = révéler ; cf. Micromégas, p. 94, 1. 22, ' des propositions sentant l'hérésie.'

1. 13. bien entendii = bien ordonné, disposé. See note on p. 27, 1. 3.

1. 37. d'ailleurs is to be translated literally : it is not hère the adverb rendered * besides '.

Page 82. 1.22. empyrée, m., 'the empyrean,' the highest or outermost heaven, beyond space and time, called on p. 83, 1. 28, ' la dixième sphère,' beingiinagined asoutside the successive sphères of the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the fixed stars, and the primum mobile, which according to mediaeval astronomy enclose the earth.

Page 83. 1.14. deux globes. Voltaire repeats this thought in Micromégas, c. ii.

Page 84. 1. 27. sans qui. The former use of qui after prépositions with an antécédent denoting a thing vvas disappearing only in the eighteenth century. See note on Micromégas, p. 109, 1. 31.

Page 85. 1. 21. siérait is the conditional of seoir.

1. 34. le fort de Vépée : a fencing terni, the name of the third of the blade nearest the hilt. Le faible is the tliird nearest the point.

Page 87. 1. 15. sobre : tempérant dans le boire et le manger, as in Zadig, p. 72, 1. 31.

f aurai beau. See note on Zadig, p. 69, 1. 21.