h Père Castel, a Jesuit writer on physics

plaisamment. See note on plaisant, Zadig, p. 50, 1. 9.

1. 34. de quoi coucher. Cf. Le monde comme il va, p. 8, 1. 6, ' Ce métier-ci ne me donne pas de quoi vivre ' ; and Zadig, p. 27, 1. 22, ' Il avait entre les mains de quoi perdre un homme vertueux.'

Page 100. 1.11. nouveau style. The référence to the reformed calendar of Pope Gregory XIII, which had been in use in France since 1582, is probably due to the fact that its introduction intu England took place in the year the story was published.

1. 21. chien de manchon : a pet dog, small enough to be carried in a muff.

1. 22. roi de Prusse. Micromégas was written at the Court of Frederick the Great, whose father, it will be remembered, formed a regiment of Life Guards, the Potsdam Grenadiers, ail much over six feet high.

Page 101. 1. 23. va de droit ftl=va, directement à son objet. 1. 38. tiré au cordeau : tiré hère = tracé, ' straight as a line.'

Page 102. 1. 8. carat : a jeweller's weight, the 150th part of an ounce Troy, used for small procious stones, and, by extension, a name for the small diamonds sold by weight.