D'Alembert, French author and philosopher

3. Mademoiselle Lespinasse; Mlle, de Lespinasse, a leader of one of the eighteenth century salons, author of well-known letters.

4. Rousseau, Jean- Jacques Rousseau, famous emotional French writer (17 12-1768).

5. Toulon, seaport on the Mediterranean, long the headquarters of French pénal galleys.

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TSige 60. — I. Saint-Michel, famous abbey and former monastery on a rock off the Norman coast» surrounded by quicksands. Many political prisoners were shut up there.

2. Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits. This sentence is not to be taken literally. Chauvelin attacked the Jesuits.