Boileau

1. 1066. Boileau has alluded only once to Ménage : — *' Chapelain veut rimer, et c'est là sa folie : Mais bien que ses durs vers, d'épithètes enflés, Soient des moindres grimauds chez Ménage siffles." (Sat. iv.) 1. 1081. Â celebrated bookseller and publisher.

GiUes Ménage (1613-1692), well known as a critic and a lexicographer, is hère tumed into ridicule under the name of Vadius. See above, Notice sur les Femmes Savantes. The actor who originally performed that part was Philbert Gassot du Croisy.

1. 1104. Biais, which is hère pronounced as a monosyllable, also appears elsewhere as a dissyllable.

" Il faut voir maintenant quel biais je prendrai." (L'Etourdi, iv. 8.)