iarquant, of note

1. 14. ne se démentait point, did not deny, i.e. endeavour to conceal, itself,

1. 28. dix-neuf ans: Mary, queen of Scots, was confined in English prisons from her fliglit to England in 1568, to her exécution in

1. 29, spirituel, a man endowed with espj-it, a word which can hardly be translated, but to which cleverness, or wit in the eighteenth century meaning of the word, is the nearest équivalent : cf. the use of the word above p. 22, 1. 29.

Footnote. Ehéar de Sabran, born in 1774 ; was sent to Vincennes in 1813, on account of his friendship for Madame de Staël. His mother, widow of Count de Sabran, married the Chevalier de BoufHers, See the Correspojidance inédite de la comtesse de Sabran et du chevalier de Boufflers ; Paris 1875, 8vo.

P. 33, 1. 8. à cet égard, àr'c., in this respect (i.e. of knowing ail about me) he turned out to be a mère braggart.