le génie de sa nation, the character of his nation

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1. 15. ou chacun se figurait utïe fortune ; se is hère in the dative, and the sentence is elliptical : se figurait (faire, or quHl ferait) ime fortune.

la cjuerelle de la Constitution, î. e. the Constitution Unigenitus, which had originated (1713) with the publication of Quesnel's celebrated Réflexions morales sur le Nouveati Testament.

\. i\. bien différentes. The Chansonnier historique, vol. I. gives twenty-two satirical epitaphs on Louis XIV; we quote one :

"Ci-gisent en même tombeau ^ The bull Unigenitus.

Le grand Louis et les finances, ^ Edict decreeing the confis-

Et la bulle ^ et l'édit nouveau^, cation of the property of the Et de Tellier les manigances^. French Protestants who had Mortels, qui visitez ce lieu^, died without receiving the

Le plus célèbre de la France, Sacrament of the Church.

Apprenez qu'il faut craindre Dieu, ^ The tricks. Et mettre en lui son espérance." ^ The abbey of Saint Denis,

burial-piace of the kings of France.

1. 22. sa grande jeunesse, while he was very young. 1. 29. r e?nbrasement du Palatinat, at the beginning of the German War, in 1679 • ^^^ above, vol. Ii. chap. xvi. p. 27.