CHAPITRE VI

P. 42, 1. 9. vioins Français que moi: because Napoléon was a Corsican, while IMad. de Staël was born and bred in France, though her father was Swiss.

1.17. 7awt'r/a« (Timour-Leng, 1336 — 1404), the celebrated Tartar conqueror.

1. 30. poitr ses anciens maîtres. The insurrection of the Tyrol took place in 1809 ; it was promptly put down by the French: see above, p. 17, 1. 31, note.

P. 43, 1. I. cT abandonner : in the Treaty of Schonbrunn, 1S09, between France and Austria, the Tyrol was given up again to Bavaria. 1. 5. r empereur ; not Napoléon, but the emperor of Austria.

P. 44,1. 2. Maximilian I (1459 — 15 19) had great qualities, and introduced important reforms in the government of his vast dominions. His grandson, Charles V (1500 — 1558), succeeded him.

1. 3. avait failli périr, had narrowly escaped death. Faillir, to fail ; htnce faillite, a (commercial) failure.

1. 14. Hofer (Andréas, 1767 — 1810), the leader of the Tyrolese insurrection.

1. 20. Inspruck (L. Veldidetta, Œnipontuvi), capital of the Tyrol.

1. 30 ff. Philippe le Bon (1396 — 1467), Duke of Burgundy in 1420; — Charles le Téméraire (1433 — 1477), son of the foregoing ; — Marie de Bourgogne {iJ^ll — 1482), only daughter of Charles the Bold, married (1477) the archduke Maximilian, son of the emperor Frédéric IH.

1. 32. Dietrick de Berne ; Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths A.D. 475 — 526, whose principal seat of power was at Verona (Ger-

iio NOTES.

manised into Bern) : a historical character enough, but also the hero of much legend and romance.

P. 45, 1. 3. visiire, the visor of a helmet. Rompre en visiire à queîqiûun, to corne to an open quarrel with some one.

"Je n'y puis plus tenir; j'enrage, et mon dessein Est de rompre en visière à tout le genre humain."

(Molière, Le Misanthrope ^ i. i.) 1. 7. Salzboiirg, a town in Upper Austria.

1. 18. lie saii?-aient Temporicr, ca.nno\.-çKVM\, Comp. the English to lord it over.

P. 46, 1. S. une bonne physionomie, klndly features.