il n’y put tenir, /e cow/d restrain himself no longer

3. J'y passe, Z experience it. — 4. l'Intelligence, cf. page 49, note "A

Page 58.— 1. que non, #or af al}, br: no means ; que is pots an expletive. An introductory verb may be supplied, as, /e dis que non,

Page 59.—1. dans un même monde, ## #he same society.

2. Alexandre Ier, Czar of Russia from 18o1 until his death, in 1825. Ile was defeated by Napoleon at the battles of Austerlitz, Eylau, and Friedland. In 1815, he aided in the restoration of the Bourbons to the throne of France.

KE Catherine, Catherine II, the Great, empress of Russia. She was the wife of the Czar, Peter IIT, and reigned alone from 1763 to 1796. She was called “the Semiramis of the North.” Semiramis was a legendary queen of Assyria.

P. 60-71] NOTES 167 Page G0.—1. Y a-t-il loin, #5 #{ far?

Page 61.—7:1. Elle a failli me faire faire une sottise, she came very near making me commit a folly.

Page 62.— 1. votre cousine... interdit par l'Eglise. The marriage of first cousins is prohibited by both the Greek and the Roman Catholic churches.

2. Ilest avec le ciel des accommodements, one can arrange matters with Heaven. This sentence is a nearly exact quotation from Act IV, Scene V, of the celebrated comedy, Zurtufe, by Molière. Tartuffe is a hypocrite who would screen his sins under a cloak of religion. Lest the line should be misunderstood, Molière added the following note: “ C’est un scéiérat qui parle.” Molière (1622-1673) is the greatest French author of comedies and one of the foremost literary geniuses of all time.

3. il aurait bien fallu, #{ would indeed have been necessary. The object, ?’, refers back to the preceding sentence.