Ecce Regina Angelorum : Behofd the Queen of Angels

58.1. à bouquiner : In rummaging in the old book-stalls along the ' quais.'

58.2. le parapet : The boxes of the second -hand dealers are laid out for long stretches on the parapet of the embankment (' les quais ') of the Seine.

58.3. quai Saint-Michel : On the left bank, opposite the Cité and between the Pont Saint-Michel and the Petit-Pont.

58.4. l'Aide rarissime : An extremely rare Aldine édition. Aldus Manutius was a Venetian printer and publisher of the i6th century. The Latin form of superlative is occasionally found in literary style, e.g. ' richissime,' 'rarissime.'

58.5. Elzévir : Any book published by the house of Elzevir in Holland (i6th and lyth centuries).

58.6. le Pâtissier françois : A reprint (1655) by Elzevir of a work published in Paris in 1653. Extremely rare ; only some thirty copies are known.

58.7. l'hôtel des Monnaies : The Mint, just beside the Institut and opposite to the statue of Henri IV on the Cité.

58.8. piqué : Attacked by worms or insects ; discoloured, foxed.

58.9. Gaspard de la Nuit : The title of a strange book of poetic ' fantaisies rembranesques ' published just after the author's death in 1841.

58.10. Aloysius Bertrand : An eccentric genius befriended by the great critic, Sainte-Beuve. He died in poverty before the âge of forty, leaving the one curions book referred to by our author,

58.11. romantiques: The group of writers who exercised a profound influence on French literature during the first half of last century, especially from 1830 onwards. The greatest names are those of Victor Hugo, Lamartine, Dumas, Gautier, de Vigny, Nodier, Nerval. Their chief characteristics are dissatisfaction with the classical idéal of élégance and correct-

ness, a revival of interest in the médiéval and the modem, a continuai appeal to the world of wonder and sentiment.

58.12. Pont-Royal: Connects the rue du Bac to the rue des Tuileries.

58.13. le café d'Orsay: Beside the modem underground station of the Orléans railway.

59.1. qu'il moirait : ' To which it gave the sheen of watered silk.'

59.2. la Frégate : Built for the festivities of July 1833, and moored along the Quai d'Orsay, the 'Frégate,' after many vicissitudes, had become in 1866 an 'établissement thermal ' (public baths), but was dismantled soon afterward.

59.3. les bains Vigier : One of the numerous floating swimmingbaths which throughout the length of Paris are moored to the banks of the Seine.

59.4. la Terrasse : i.e. des Tuileries, which would be just across the river from the point where the spectator was seated.

59.5. les Tuileries: The palace once occupied the whole space between the western extremities of the Louvre. It was burned by the Commune in 1871. The name means ' tileworks,' because of the proximity of the site in the i6th century, when the palace was founded, to a brick-field.

59.6. le vieux Louvre : The east end of the great pile of buildings that constitutes the Louvre. Originally (under Philippe- Auguste, I3th century) the Louvre was a sort of hunting-box (' loup,' a wolf), which has long since vanished. The existing buildings hâve gradually arisen in the course of four centuries.

59.7. de l'art pour l'art : ' Art for art's sake,' once a literary catchword, much used by Théophile Gautier.