tenir la main à, to proceed vAÛï

P. 8, 1. 3. ye suis aux regrets, I regret.

1. II. René Savary, Duke of Rovigo (1774 — 1833), gênerai, and minister of police under Napoléon. Has left some important incmoircs pour servir (1828, 8 vols. 8vo). — "Le livre de P Allemagne, qui n'a paru qu'en 1813 à Londres, était à la veille d'être publié à Paris en 1810; l'impression soumise aux censeurs impériaux, Esménard et autres, s'achevait, lorsqu'un brusque revirement de police mit les feuilles au pilon, et anéantit le tout. On sait la lettre du duc de Rovigo et cette honteuse histoire." (Sainte-Beuve.)

1. 13. Lorient, one of the five military sea-ports of France, in the department of Morbihan; was built in 1709 by the French East India Company (compagnie de Parient) ; hence its name.

la Rochelle (L. Santonum portus, Rupella), chief place of the department of Charente-inférieure, was for a long time the bulwark of Protestantism and the Huguenots.

Bordeajix (L. JBurdigala), chief place of the department of Gironde; formerly capital of the Duchy of Guienne.

Rochefort, a military port in the department of Charente-inférieure. Fortified by Vauban.

1. 1 7. Le ton mielleux ; mielleux is also applied to persons : " Ma belle-mère, bonne femme, un peu mielleuse, fît semblant de vouloir me retenir à souper." (Jean Jacques Rousseau, Confessions.)

1. 25. aurait pu, ^c, could hâve been introduced into the book. 1. 30. Vincennes, the state prison at Vincennes (L. ad Vicenas), a small town, east of Paris, in the arrondissement of Sceaux ; was formerly a royal palace, and a favourite résidence of the kings of France from the twelfth to the fourteenth century.

P. 9, 1. 16. je m^ arrêtai, â^c, I chose the latter (of the two alternatives).

1. 19. Fontainebleau, supposée! by some to be taken from fontaine bel eau, is situated in the deparlment of Seine-et-Marne. The forest and château are well know n.